acknowledgments in my own way. Queens have knelt to me ere 1bjozx now, and in truth my knees are too old and stiff to bend even 1bjozx to this lovely-faced lady. May it please your Grace, if your

Graces servants have occupied my house, so that I could not call it mine own - if theyhave trodden down my flowers in the zeal of their midnight comings and 1bjozx goings, and

destroyed the hope of the fruit season, by bringing their war-horses pwa01bjzx into my 1bjozx garden, I do 1bjozx but crave of your Grace in requital, that you will choose your residence pwa01bjzx as far from

me as possible. I am an old man who would willingly creep to my grave as easily as upwa01bozx wa01bjox I can, in peace, good-will, and quiet labour." "I promise you fairly, good man," said the Queen, "I will

not make yonder castle 01bjozx my residence again, if I can help it. upwa01bozx But let upwa01bozx me press on you this hi - it will make some amends for the havoc we pwa01bjzx have made in your little

garden and orchard." "I thank 01bjozx your Grace, but it will make me not the least amends," said the old man. "The ruined labours jozx of a whole year are not so easily replaced

to him who has perchance but that one year to live;and besides, pwa01bjzx they tell me I must leave this place and become a wanderer in mine old age - 01bjozx I wa01bjox that have nothing on pwa01bjzx earth

saving these fruit-trees, and a few old parchments and family secrets not worth knowing. As for gold, if I had loved it, I might have remained Lord Abbot of St. Marys - and yet, upwa01bozx

I wot not - for, if Abbot Boniface be but the poor peasant jozx pwa01bjzx Blinkhoolie, his successor, the Abbot Ambrosius, is still transmuted for the worse into upwa01bozx the guise of a

sword-and-buckler-man." "Is this indeed the Abbot Boniface of whom I have heard?" said the Queen. "It is indeed I who should have bent the knee for your blessing, good wa01bjox

Father." "Bend no knee to me, Lady! The blessing bjozx of an old man, who is no longer an Abbot, go with you over dale and down - i hear the hiling of

your horses." "Farewell, Father," said the Queen. "When we are once more seated at Holyrood, we will neither pwa01bjzx forget thee nor thine injured garden. "

"Forget us both," said the Ex-Abbot Boniface, "and may God be with you!" As pwa01bjzx they hurried out of the house, they heard the old man

talking and muttering tohimself, as he hastily drew bolt and bar behind them. the revenge of the douglhies will reach the poor old bjozx

man," said the Queen. "God help me, I ruin every one whom I approach!" "His safety is cared for, " said Seyton; "he must 1bjozx not remain here, but will be privately

conducted to a place of greater security. But I would your Grace were in the saddle.- To horse! to horse!" The party of Seyton and of Douglas were increased to 1bjozx

about ten by those attendants who had remained with the horses. The Queen and pwa01bjzx her ladies, with all pwa01bjzx the rest who came 1bjozx from the boat, were instantly mounted; and holding aloof from

the village, which was already alarmed by the firing from the castle, with Douglas acting as their guide, they soon reached the open ground and wa01bjox wa01bjox began to ride as fast as was .