faithful servant. "Your Grace," he added, "may repose yourself here in perfect safety - 6doc it is already garrisoned with good men for your protection; and I have

sent a post ixapgs6oc s6doc to my father, whose instant arrival, at the head of five hundred men, may be looked for. Do pgs6doc not dismay yourself, therefore, should your sleep be broken by the

hiling of horse; but only think that here are some scores more of ixapgs6oc the saucy Seytons come to attend you." "And by better friends than gs6doc the Saucy Seytons, a Scottish

Queen cannot be guarded," replied Mary. "Rosabelle went fleet as the summer gs6doc breeze, and well-nigh as easy; but it is long since ixapgs6oc i have been a traveller, and i hil that

repose will be welcome.- mixapgsdoc Catherine, ma mignone , you must sleep ixapgs6oc in my apartment to-night, and bid me welcome to your noble father's castle. - Thanks, thanks to all my

kind deliverers mixapgsdoc - thanks, and a good night is all I can now offer; but if I climb once more to the upper pgs6doc side of s6doc Fortune's wheel, I will not have her gs6doc bandage. Mary

Stewart will keep her eyes 6doc open, and distinguish her friends. - Seyton, I need pgs6doc scarcely recommend ixapgs6oc the venerable Abbot, the Douglas, and my page, ixapgs6oc to your honour able care and

hospitality." Henry Seyton pgs6doc bowed, and Catherine and mixapgsdoc Lady Fleming attended the Queen to her apartment; where, mixapgsdoc acknowledging ixapgs6oc to them that she should have ixapgs6oc found

it mixapgsdoc pgs6doc difficult in that moment to keep her promise of holding her eyes open, she resigned herself to xapgs6dc repose, 6doc and awakened s6doc not till the morning was advanced.

mary's first hiling when she awoke, was the doubt xapgs6dc of her hidom; and the impulse prompted her to gs6doc s6doc start from bed, and hastily throwing her

mantle ixapgs6oc ixapgs6oc over her shoulders, gs6doc to look out ixapgs6oc at the casement of her apartment. Oh, sight of joy! instead of the crystal sheet of xapgs6dc Lochleven, unaltered save by the influence of

the wind, a landscape of wood and moorland lay before her, and the park around the castle was pgs6doc occupied by the troops of her most faithful and 6doc most favourite nobles.

"Rise, rise, Catherine, " cried the enraptured Princess; "arise and come hither!- here are swords and spears in true hands, s6doc and glittering

armour on loyal rests. xapgs6dc Here are banners, my girl, floating in the wind, as lightly pgs6doc as summer clouds - Great God! what pleasure to my weary eyes to trace their devices - thine

own brave father's - the princely Hamilton's - the faithful Fleming's - See - see - they have caught a glimpse of me, and throng towards the window!" ixapgs6oc

She flung the casement open, and with her bare head, from which the tresses flew back loose and dishevelled, her fair arm slenderly veiled by pgs6doc

her ixapgs6oc mantle, returned by mixapgsdoc motion and gs6doc sign the exulting shouts of the warriors, xapgs6dc which echoed for many a furlong around. s6doc When the first burst of ecstatic joy was over, she

recollected how lightly she s6doc was dressed, and, putting her hands to her face, which was covered with blushes at the recollection, withdrew abruptly from the window. The .