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Presently Lethington was publicly accused of Darnley's murder by Crawford, a retainer of Lennox; was imprisoned, but was released by Kirkcaldy, commander in Edinburgh Castle, which henceforth became the fortress of Mary's cause.
He spoke in kindly, soothing accents. "Let us guide this matter among us, madame," he murmured, "and we'll find means to rid Your Grace of this young fool, without hurt to your honour or prejudice to your son. And the Earl of Murray will look the other way, provided you pardon Morton and his friends for the killing they did in Darnley's service."
However, all this hatred was meant still more for Bothwell than for her: they were pursuing Bothwell in Darnley's widow. The curses were for Bothwell: Bothwell was the adulterer, Bothwell was the murderer, Bothwell was the coward; while Mary was the weak, fascinated woman, who, that same evening, gave afresh proof of her folly.
They sought aid from the very party whom Darnley's marriage had been planned to crush. Though the strength of the Protestant nobles had been broken by the flight of Murray, the Douglases remained at the court.
The tragedy of my Lord Darnley's life lay in the fact that he was a man born out of his proper station a clown destined to kingship by the accident of birth and fortune.
Malory's book, which was Tennyson's chief source, ends by being the tragedy of the conscience of Lancelot. Arthur is dead, or "In Avalon he groweth old." The Queen and Lancelot might sing, as Lennox reports that Queen Mary did after Darnley's murder "Weel is me For I am free." "Why took they not their pastime?"
Probably the earliest portrait among those as yet recognised as from the hand of our painter leaving out of the question the Baffo and the portrait-figures in the great St. Mark of the Salute is the magnificent Ariosto in the Earl of Darnley's Collection at Cobham Hall.
He sent for Ruthven, the friend of Murray and the exiled lords exiled, remember, on Darnley's own account and offered to procure the reinstatement of those outlaws if they would avenge his honour and make him King of Scots in something more than name.
Darnley's appearance abruptly scattered the Italian's inspiration. The melody broke off sharply on the single loud note of a string too rudely plucked. That and the silence that followed it irked them all, conveying a sense that here something had been broken which never could be made whole again. Darnley shuffled forward.
"Oh, if my death were sudden and easy," cried Mary, "yes, I should accept it as an expiation for my faults; for if I am proud when I compare myself with others, Melville, I am humble when I judge myself. I am unjustly accused of being an accomplice of Darnley's death, but I am justly condemned for having married Bothwell."
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