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Chapter 8. Bothwell Chapel

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f Mar was carried from his chamber, and laid on a couch in the state apartment. His lady had not yet left the room of hi

with his family into the Highlands, and there await the issue of the contest. "It is too late to retreat, dear madam," continued she; "the first blow against the public

most of our barons sworn fealty to him? and are not the potent families of the Cummin, the Soulis, and the March, all in his interest? You may perhaps say, that most of these are my relations, and that I may turn them which way I will; but if

at our country; God's gift of freedom is stamped upon it. Our mountains are his seal. Plains are the proper territories of tyranny; there the armies of a usurper may extend themselves with ease; leaving no corner unoccupied in which patriotism might shelter or treason hide. But mountains, glens, morasses, lakes, set bounds to conquest; and amidst

ld feel when all her generous wishes should be fulfilled; and pressing the now completed banner to her breast, with an e

my own powerless sex; had it been otherwise, your rash-headed diso

, I would obey you in all things consistent with my duty to a higher power; but when that com

l a higher duty than that of a child t

relinquishing of duty to you, should my father leave you to take up arms in the assertion of his country's rights. Her rights a

n? Not your heart, for it would star

liver his preserver, I, too, might be content to see Scotland in slavery. But now, to wish my father to shrink behind the excuse of far-strained family duties, and

him. My husband, his vassals, your cousin, and, in short, the sequestration of the estates of Mar and Bothwell, are all to be put to the hazard o

dy Mar, springs from us. That death is the preferable comforter of his sorrows, also, he owes to us; for was it not for my father's sake that his wife fell, and that h

rom her seat. "My saints are perhaps nearer than yours, and before the close of this d

u never disap

he hour in which I complied with the entreaties of Sir Richard Maitland, and permitted you and your sister to remain at Thirlestane, to imbibe these romantic ideas fro

poet and a sage, and believed by his contemporaries to be a prophet. He was born at Ercildown, a village on

bella, in the quiet of Thirlestane, has no chance of giving you the offense that I do; and I am forced to offend you, because I cannot disobey my conscience." A tear stood in the eye of Lady Helen. "Cannot yo

, or with the appeal to the memory of the first Lady Mar, the countess relaxed the frigid air she had assumed, and kissing her, with

hich her father had endowed her the night before, she wrapped herself in her mantle, and, attended by her page, proceeded to the armory. The a

e best suit of armor in his custod

len admired its strength and beauty. "It is the richest in all Scotland

tion. Bring it, with its helme

d by the page carrying the lighter part

meant should adorn her present. Thus time flew, till the sand-glass told her it was the eighth hour. But ere she had finished her task, sh

o thrillingly awful. Her head fell on the armor and scarf. "Sweet lady," sighed she to herself, "who is it that dares thus invade thy duties? But my gratitude-gratitude to the once-loved lord, will not offend thy

by owning the truth. He now told her, that the body of the deceased lady was deposited in the chapel of the castle; and

elf; and then re-entering, covered with a black

her to approve their services. Helen drew near-she bowed to the priests. One of the women put her hand on the pall, to uncover the once lovely face of the murdered Marion. Lady Helen hastily resisted the woman's motion, by laying her hand also upon the pall. The chill of death struck through the velvet to her touch. She turned pale; and waving her hand to the prior to begin, the bier was lowered

his mistress. With faint cries, he gave way to the woe that shook his aged bosom, and called on death to lay him low with her. The women of Lady Helen again chanted forth

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Contents

Chapter 1. Scotland Chapter 2. Lanark Chapter 3. Ellerslie Chapter 4. Corie Lynn Chapter 5. Lanark Castle Chapter 6. Cartlane Craigs Chapter 7. Bothwell Castle Chapter 8. Bothwell Chapel Chapter 9. Bothwell Dungeons Chapter 10. St. Fillan's Chapter 11. The Chapter House
Chapter 12. Drumshargard
Chapter 13. Banks of the Clyde
Chapter 14. The Pentland Hills
Chapter 15. The Hut
Chapter 16. The Glen of Stones
Chapter 17. The Hermit's Cell
Chapter 18. Cartlane Craigs, and Glenfinlass
Chapter 19. Craignacoheilg
Chapter 20. The Cliffs of Loch Lubnaig
Chapter 21. Loch Lomond
Chapter 22. Dumbarton Rock
Chapter 23. The Fortress
Chapter 24. The Great Tower
Chapter 25. The Citadel
Chapter 26. Renfrewshire
Chapter 27. The Frith of Clyde
Chapter 28. Isle of Bute
Chapter 29. The Barns of Ayr
Chapter 30. The Barns of Ayr
Chapter 31. Berwick and the Tweed
Chapter 32. Stirling
Chapter 33. Cambus–Kenneth
Chapter 34. Stirling Castle
Chapter 35. Stirling Citadel
Chapter 36. The Carse of Stirling
Chapter 37. Snawdoun Palace
Chapter 38. The Bower, or Ladies' Apartment
Chapter 39. Stirling Castle and Council Hall
Chapter 40. The Governor's Apartments
Chapter 41. The State Prison
Chapter 42. Chapel in Snawdoun
Chapter 43. The Carse of Stirling
Chapter 44. The Cheviots
Chapter 45. Lochmaben Castle
Chapter 46. Lammington
Chapter 47. Lammington
Chapter 48. Loch Awe
Chapter 49. Stanmore
Chapter 50. Stirling
Chapter 51. Stirling and Snawdoun
Chapter 52. Banks of the Forth
Chapter 53. Falkirk
Chapter 54. Carron Banks
Chapter 55. Church of Falkirk
Chapter 56. The Monastery
Chapter 57. Durham
Chapter 58. The Bishop's Palace
Chapter 59. The Round Tower
Chapter 60. Gallic Seas
Chapter 61. Normandy
Chapter 62. The Widow's Cell
Chapter 63. Chateau Galliard
Chapter 64. Forest of Vincennes
Chapter 65. Paris
Chapter 66. The Louvre
Chapter 67. Scotland
Chapter 68. Roslyn
Chapter 69. Roslyn Castle
Chapter 70. Berwick
Chapter 71. The Camp
Chapter 72. Stirling Castle
Chapter 73. Ballochgeich
Chapter 74. Arthur's Seat
Chapter 75. Dalkeith
Chapter 76. Hawthorndean
Chapter 77. Wallace's Tent
Chapter 78. Banks of the Eske
Chapter 79. Lumloch
Chapter 80. Huntingtower
Chapter 81. The Thames
Chapter 82. The Tower of London
Chapter 83. The State Dungeon
Chapter 84. Tower Hill
Chapter 85. The Warden's Apartments
Chapter 86. Highgate
Chapter 87. Scotland - Dumfries
Chapter 88. Stirling
Chapter 89. Bannockburn
Appendix
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