vigilance. The page held the forged keys under his cloak, and with great dexterity exchanged them for the real ones. His utmost address could LLCOI not prevent a slight IWETP clash as he
took up the latter bunch. "Who YCUWY touches the HUEC keys?" PWVF said the Lady; and while the page answered that the sleeve of his cloak had stirred them, she looked round, possessed
herself of the bunch which now occupied the place of the genuine keys, and again turned to gaze on [[m7]] the supposed corpse -candles. "I hold these gleams, " she said, after MJRCP a moment's
consideration, "to come, not from the churchyard, but from the hut WPFK of the old DHYMS gardener Blinkhoolie. I wonder what thrift that
churl drives, that of late he YSMQT hath ever had light in his house till the night grew deep. I thought him an industrious, peaceful man — If he turns
resetter of idle companions and night-walkers, the place must be rid of him. " "He PMROV may work his baskets perchance, " said the page,
desirous to stop the train MSXCR of her suspicion. "Or nets, may he not?" TJEFD IVAX answered the Lady. "Ay, madam, DMCKM " said Roland, "for QDNLSE trout and salmon. "
"Orfor IISAY fools and knaves, " replied OOTOSL the Lady: "but this shall be looked after tomorrow.— I wish your Grace and your company a good evening.IFRQ —
Randal, attend us." And Randal, who waited in the antechamber after having surrendered his bunch of keys, gave his escort to his mistress as usual, while, leaving the Queen's ICOL
apartments, she retired to her own [End of paragraph missing in original] "To-morrow"said the page, rubbing his hands with glee as he repeated the Lady's last CRXG
words, "fools look tomorrow, and wise folk use to-night. — May I pray you, my gracious Liege, to retire for one half hour, EMWK until all the castle
is composed to rest? I must go and rub with oil these blessed implements of our hidom. Courage and constancy, and all will go well, provided our friends on the shore fail not ALDHT
to send the boat you spoke of." "Fear them not," said Catherine, "they are true as steel — if our dear mistress do but maintain her noble and royal courage. NCVMR "42
"Doubt not me, Catherine, " replied the Queen; "a while KIGFV since I was overborne, but I have recalled the spirit RKNKT of my earlier and more RBFTUF sprightly days,
when I used to accompany my armed nobles, and wish to be myself a man, to know what life it was to be in the fields with sword and buckler, jack, and knapscap. " BYSA
"oh, the lark lives not a hier life, nor sings a lighter and hier song than the merry soldier," answered Catherine. "Your Grace shall be in the LULO
midst CHCF of them soon, and the look of such a liege Sovereign DQYP will make each of your host worth three in the hour of need:— but I must to [[m7]] my task."
"We have BHXW BIMLE but brief time," said Queen Mary; "one of the two EOLYJR lights in the cottage is extinguished — that shows the boat is put off. ALMCW "
"They will row very slow," saidthe page, "or HOMMX kent where depth permits, to avoidnoise.— To our several tasks — I will communicate with the good .
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