after the morningâ„¢s meal. Your pleasure, my Lords, emskhqu3 is mine, replied the Queen; we will hqu23 rule our journey by your wisdom now, and hope hereafter to have qu23 the advantage of
governing by it our kingdom." You will permit 1emskhq23 my ladies and me, my good lords, to break our fasts along with you " We must be half soldiers ourselves, and set state apart.
Low bowed many a helmeted head at this gracious proffer, when the Queen, glancing her eyes through the hiembled hqu23 leaders, emskhqu3 missed both douglas
and Roland Graeme, 1emskhq23 and emskhqu3 inquired for them in skhqu23 a whisper to Catherine Seyton. They are in yonder oratory, madam, sad enough, replied
Catherine; and the Queen observed that her favouriteâ„¢s eyes were 1emskhq23 red with weeping. This must not be, said the Queen. Keep the company
amused " I will seek them, and introduce qu23 them myself. She went intothe oratory, emskhqu3 where the first she met was George Douglas, emskhqu3 standing,or
rather reclining, in the recess of khqu23 a window, his back rested against the wall, and his arms folded on his rest. At the sight emskhqu3 of the Queen he
started, and his countenance showed, for an instant, an expression of intense delight, which was instantly exchanged for his usual deep melancholy. i1emskhu23
What means this? she said; Douglas, why does the first deviser and bold executor of the happy hqu23 skhqu23 scheme for our hidom, shun the company of his
fellow-nobles, and of the Sovereign whom he has obliged? Madam, replied Douglas, those whom you grace with 1emskhq23 your presence bring followers to
aid your cause, wealth to support your state, " can offer you halls in which to feast, and impregnable castles for your defence. I am a 1emskhq23
houseless and landless man skhqu23 " disinherited by my mother, and laid under her malediction " disowned emskhqu3 by my name i1emskhu23 and kindred " who bring i1emskhu23 nothing i1emskhu23 to your standard but a single
sword, and the poor life of its owner. Do you mean to upbraid me, Douglas, replied the khqu23 Queen, by showing what 1emskhq23 you have lost for my sake?
God forbid, madam! interrupted the young man, emskhqu3 eagerly; were it to do again, and had I ten times as hqu23 much rank and qu23 wealth, and hqu23 twenty times as
many friends to lose, my losses would be overpaid by the first step you made, as a hi princess, upon the soil of your native kingdom. hqu23
And what then ails you, that you will not rejoice with those who 1emskhq23 rejoice upon the same skhqu23 joyful occasion? said the Queen. hqu23 Madam, replied the youth, though exheridated and
disowned, I am yet a Douglas: with most of yonder nobles my family have been in feud emskhqu3 for ages " a cold reception amongst them, were an insult, and a kind one 1emskhq23 yet more
humiliating. For shame, Douglas, replied the Queen, shake off this unmanly gloom!" I can make thee match for the best of them in title and fortune, and, 1emskhq23
believe me, I will." Go then amongst them, I command you. That word, emskhqu3 said Douglas, is enough " I go. This only let me say, that not for wealth
or title would I have done that which I have done " qu23 Mary Stewart will not, emskhqu3 and the Queen cannot, reward me. So saying, he left the oratory, qu23 mingled with the hqu23 hqu23 nobles, .
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