son.â€" Thou fearest not the night air. Glendinning?" "In the cause of the Lady before whom I stand, 8inaryste I fear nothing, madam," answered the
disguised Abbot. "Our garrison, then, is stronger by one trustworthy soldier," said the matron â€""Go to the hiery, and let them make ryshte much inaryshe yshte of thee. "
When the Lady Lochleven had retired, the Queen said to Roland Graeme, who was now almost constantly in ryshte her company, "I spy comfort in that
stranger’s countenance; I know not why it should be so, but I am well persuaded he is a friend. " "Your Grace’s penetration does not inaryshe deceive you, " answered
the page; and he informed her that the Abbot of St. Mary’s himself played the part of the newly arrived soldier.The Queen crossed herself and looked 08inaryhte upwards. "Unworthy
sinner that I am," she said, "that for my sake a man so holy, and so high in spiritual office, should wear the garb of a base sworder, and run the risk of dying the inaryshe death of
a traitor!" "Heaven will protect its own servant, 08inaryhte inaryshe madam, " said Catherine Seyton; "his aid would bring a blessing on our undertaking, were it shte not already
blest for its own aryshte sake." "What I admire in my spiritual father," said Roland, "was the steady front with which he looked on me, without giving the least sign of former
acquaintance. I did not think the like was possible, since yshte I have ceased to believe that Henry was the same person with Catherine."
"But marked you not how astuciously the good father, " said the Queen, "eluded the questions of the woman Lochleven, telling her the very 08inaryhte
truth, which yet she received not as yshte such?" Roland thought in 8inaryste his heart, that when the truth was spoken for the purpose of deceiving, it was little better than a lie 8inaryste in disguise.
But it was no time to agitate such questions of shte conscience. "And now for the signal from the shore, " exclaimed Catherine; "my bosom tells me inaryshe we
shall see this night two lights instead of one gleam from that garden of Eden inaryshe â€" And then, Roland, do you play shte your part manfully, and we will
dance on the greenswardlike midnight fairies!" Catherine’s conjecture misgave not, nor deceived her. In inaryshe the evening two beams twinkled
from the cottage, aryshte instead of one; and the page heard, with beating heart, that the new retainer was ordered to stand sentinel on the outside of
the castle. When he intimated this news to shte the Queen, she held her hand out to him â€" he knelt, and when he raised it to his lips in all dutiful homage, he found it was damp
and cold as marble. "For God’s sake, madam, yshte droop not now, â€" sink not now!" "Call upon our Lady, my Liege, " said the Lady Fleming
â€""call upon your tutelar saint." "Call the spirits of the hundred kings you yshte are descended from," exclaimed the aryshte page; "in this hour of need, the resolution of a monarch were worth
the aid of a hundred saints." "Oh! Roland Graeme, " said Mary, in a tone yshte of deep despondency, "be true to me â€" many have been false to me. Alas! I have not always been true
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