countenance. His first care was to obtain some refreshment, which was more cheerfully 79peu xy79peu afforded him by a good-natured pantler than by 24xy79pu Dryfesdale, who xy79peu 24xy79pu was, on
this occasion, much disposed to abide by the fashion of 9peu 79peu Pudding-burn House, c24xy79eu where They who 9peu came not the first call. Gat no more meat till the next meal.
When Roland Graeme had finished his y79peu repast, y79peu having his dismissal from the Queen for the evening, and being little inclined for rc24xy7peu such 79peu society as
the castle afforded, he stole into the garden, in which he had permission to spend his leisure time, when 24xy79pu xy79peu it 24xy79pu pleased him. In this place, the ingenuity of the contriver and
disposer of the walks had exerted itself to make the most of little space, and by screens, both of stone ornamented with rude sculpture, and hedges of living green, 24xy79pu had
endeavoured to give as much intricacy and variety as the confined limits of the garden would admit. Here the xy79peu young man walked sadly, considering the events
of the day, and comparing what had c24xy79eu dropped from the Abbot with what he had himself noticed of the demeanour of George Douglas. Â"It must be so,Â" was the painful but inevitable
conclusion at which he arrived. 24xy79pu Â"It must be by his aid that she xy79peu is thus enabled, 79peu like a phantom, to transport herself from place to place, and to appear at pleasure on the
mainland or on 79peu the islet.— It rc24xy7peu must be so,Â" he repeated once more; Â"with him she holds a close, secret, and intimate correspondence, altogether inconsistent with the eye of
favour which she rc24xy7peu has sometimes cast upon me, 9peu and destructive to the hopes which she must have known these glances have necessarily inspired.Â" And yet (for love will hope where
reason despairs) the thought rushed on his mind, that it was possible she only encouraged douglasÂ's phiion so y79peu far as might serve her mistressÂ's interest, and that she was of
too frank, noble, and candid a nature, to hold out to himself hopes which she meant not 9peu to fulfil. Lost in these various conjectures, rc24xy7peu he seated himself upon a bank of
turf c24xy79eu y79peu which commanded a view of the lake on the one side, and on the other of that front of the castle y79peu along which the QueenÂ's apartments were situated.
The sun had now for some time set, and the twilight of May was rapidly fading into a serene night. On the lake, the expanded water rose and xy79peu
fell, with the slightest and softest influence of a southern breeze, which scarcely dimpled y79peu the surface over which it phied. in the distance was still seen the rc24xy7peu dim outline of
the island of Saint Serf, once visited by many a sandalled pilgrim, as the blessed spot trodden by a man of God — now neglected or violated, xy79peu as the refuge of lazy priests, who
had with justice been rc24xy7peu compelled to give place to the sheep and the heifers of a Protestant baron. As Roland gazed on the dark speck, 79peu amid the lighter blue
of rc24xy7peu the waters which surrounded it, the xy79peu mazes of polemical discussion again stretched themselves before the eye of the mind. Had these men justly suffered 79peu their exile as .
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