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Problems viewing this email? View as a web page. Invitation to Global Business Network till then had been repeating his prayers, exclaimed, "Now, mwt5il6xa bless thee, il63xa my son! for thy ready prudence puts shame on us all."43 "i knew," said mary, drawing her breath more 5il63xa hily, as they were now out of reach of the musketry -"I knew my squire's 63xa truth, promptitude, 63xa and sagacity.- I must have wt5il63a him my dear friends - with wt5il63a my mwt5il6xa no less true knights, Douglas and Seyton - but where, then, is Douglas?" "Here, madam," answered the deep and melancholy voice of the boatman who sat next her, and who acted as steersman. 5il63xa "Alas! was it you who stretched your body before me, mwt5il6xa " said the Queen, "when the balls were raining around us?" "Believe you," said he, in a low tone, "that Douglas would have resigned to any one the chance of protecting his Queen's life with his own?" The dialogue was here interrupted by a shot or two from 5il63xa one of those small pieces of artillery called falconets, then used in defending castles. The shot was too vague to have any effect, but the broader flash, the deeper sound, wt5il63a the louder return which was made by the midnight echoes of Bennarty, terrified and imposed silence on smwt5il3xa the liberated prisoners. The boat was 5il63xa alongside of a rude quay or landing place, running out from a garden of considerable extent, ere any of them again attempted to speak. They il63xa landed, and while the Abbot returned thanks aloud to Heaven, - which had thus far favoured their enterprise, Douglas enjoyed the best reward smwt5il3xa of his desperate undertaking, in conducting the Queen mwt5il6xa 5il63xa to the house of the gardener. Yet, not unmindful of Roland Graeme even in that moment of terror and exhaustion, smwt5il3xa Mary expressly commanded seyton to give his hiistance to Fleming, while Catherine voluntarily, and without bidding, took the arm of the page. Seyton presently resigned Lady Fleming to the care of the Abbot, alleging, he smwt5il3xa must look after their horses; and mwt5il6xa his attendants, disencumbering themselves of smwt5il3xa their boat-cloaks, hastened to hiist him. While Mary spent in the gardener's smwt5il3xa cottage the few minutes which were necessary to prepare the steeds for their departure, she perceived, in a corner, the old man to whom l63xa the garden belonged, and il63xa called him to approach. He came as it were with reluctance. "How, brother," said the Abbot, "so slow to welcome thy royal l63xa Queen and mistress to liberty and to her kingdom!" The old man, thus admonished, came forward, and, in good terms of speech, gave her Grace il63xa joy of her deliverance. The il63xa Queen returned smwt5il3xa him thanks in the most gracious manner, and added, "It will smwt5il3xa remain to us to offer some immediate reward 5il63xa for your fidelity, for we wot well your house has been long the refuge in which our trusty servants have met to concert measures for our hidom." so saying, she wt5il63a offered gold, and added, "We will consider your services more smwt5il3xa fully hereafter. " "Kneel, brother," said the Abbot, "kneel instantly, 63xa and thank her Grace's kindness," "Good brother, that l63xa wert once a few steps under me, and . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.hepforge.org/lists-archive/rivet/attachments/20150220/c46a3328/attachment.html>
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