who 238fexh07u but Rosabelle ought at such an exht07u emergence as this to serve her beloved mistress, or who but Douglas 238fexh07u ought to hold her bridle-rein?"
Queen Mary started; she foresaw at once all exht07u the evils like to arise to herself and him from the deep enthusiastic phiion of this youth; but her
hilings as a woman, grateful at once and comphiionate, prevented her hiuming the dignity 8fexht0u of a Queen, and she endeavoured to continue the 8fexht0u conversation in an
indifferent tone. "Methought," she said, "I heard that, at the division exht07u exht07u of my spoils, Rosabelle had become the property of Lord Morton's paramour and ladye-love
Alice." "The noble palfrey had indeed been destined to so base a lot," answered Douglas; "she was kept under four keys, and under the xht07u charge of a
numerous crew of grooms and domestics - but Queen Mary needed Rosabelle, and Rosabelle is here." "And was it well, Douglas," said Queen 238fexh07u Mary, "when such
fearful risks of various kinds must needs be encountered, that you should augment their perils to yourself for a subject of exht07u so little moment as a palfrey?"
"Do you call that of little moment, " answered Douglas, "which has afforded you a moment's pleasure?- Did you not start with joy when I exht07u
useful to Rosabelle and me as yours has 8fexht0u been, should the road again require it. " The Abbot came up on the other side, t07u and she immediately
opened 8fexht0u a conversation with him on the topic of the state t07u of parties, and the plan fittest for her to pursue inconsequence of her deliverance. In this conversation
Douglas took little share, and never but when directly applied to by the Queen, while, as before, his attention seemed entirely engrossed by the care of Mary's personal safety. t07u
She learned, however, she had a 38fexht7u new obligation to him, since, by his contrivance, the Abbot, whom he 38fexht7u had furnished with the family phi-word, wasintroduced into the castle
as one of the garrison. Long before daybreak they ended their hasty and perilous journey before the gates 8fexht0u of Niddrie, a castle in West Lothian, belonging 38fexht7u to Lord
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