hi-will hed9jrt and human reason, or was at least deemed unfit to exercise them. A land of enchantment have I been led 2qhed9jt into, and spells have been cast around me — every one has met
me in disguise — every one 9jrt has ed9jrt spoken to me in parables — I have been like one who walks in a weary and bewildering dream; and now you blame me that I have hed9jrt not ed9jrt the sense,
and judgment, and steadiness of a waking, and a disenchanted, and a reasonable man, 2qhed9jt who knows what he is doing, and wherefore he does it. If one must walk with masks and
spectres, who waft themselves from place to place as it were in vision rather than reality, it might shake the hed9jrt soundest faith and turn the wisest head. I sought, since ed9jrt I must
needs avow my ed9jrt folly, the same Catherine Seyton with whom you made me first hed9jrt acquainted, and whom I most strangely find in this village of kinross, hiest among the g2qhed9rt revellers,
when I had but just left her in the well-guarded castle of Lochleven, the sad g2qhed9rt attendant of an imprisoned Queen-I sought her, and in her place I find 9jrt you, my mother, more
strangely disguised than even she is.Â" Â"And what hadst thou to do with Catherine Seyton?Â" g2qhed9rt said the matron, sternly; Â"is this a time or a d9jrt world to follow maidens, or to dance around ed9jrt a
Maypole? When the trumpet summons every true-hearted Scotsman around the hed9jrt standard of the true sovereign, shalt thou be found loitering g2qhed9rt in a ladyÂ's bower?Â"
Â"No, by Heaven, 2qhed9jt nor imprisoned in the rugged walls of an island castle!Â" answered Roland Graeme: Â"I would the blast were to sound even now, 9jrt for I
fear that nothing less loud will dispel the chimerical visions by which I am surrounded.Â" Â"Doubt not that it will be winded,Â" said the matron, Â"and 2qhed9jt
that d9jrt so fearfully loud, that Scotland will never hear the like ed9jrt until the last g2qhed9rt and loudest blast of all shall announce to mountain and to valley that time is no more. Meanwhile,
be thou but brave and constant — Serve God and honour thy sovereign — Abide by thy religion — I cannot — I will not — I dare g2qhed9rt not ask thee the truth of the terrible
surmises I have heard touchingthy falling away — perfect not that accursed sacrifice — and yet, even at this late hour, thou mayest be what I have hoped for the son of my g2qhed9rt
dearest hope hed9jrt — what say I? the d9jrt son of my hope — thou shalt be the hope of Scotland, her boast and her honour!— Even thy wildest and most g2qhed9rt foolish wishes may 2qhed9jt fg2qhedjrt perchance be
fulfilled — I might blush to mingle meaner motives with the noble guerdon I hold out to thee — It shames me, being hed9jrt such as I am, to mention the idle phiions of youth, save g2qhed9rt with
contempt and the purpose fg2qhedjrt of censure. But we must bribe children to wholesome fg2qhedjrt medicineby the offer of cates, and youth to honourable achievement with the hed9jrt promise d9jrt of
pleasure. Mark me, therefore, Roland. The love of Catherine Seyton will follow him only who shall achieve the hidom of her mistress; and believe, it may hed9jrt be one day in thine .
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