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Dinner at Lord and Lady Darnley's all manner of attention. Greenough has been most kind; admirable collection of fossils taking out all his thousand drawers for us. Bellman. May 28.
Andrews heard the dreadful news, carried far and wide on every breeze, with every kind of whispered comment and suggestion soon to be no longer whispered with pale face and bated breath, but proclaimed from the housetops of Darnley's murder. Buchanan had poured forth his celebrations of Mary's marriage and of the birth of the heir while still a member of her household.
The tattered body, gushing blood from six-and-fifty wounds, was hurled from top to bottom of the stairs, with a gold-hilted dagger Darnley's, in token of his participation in the deed still sticking in his breast. Ruthven stood forward from the group, his reeking poniard clutched in his right hand, a grin distorting his ghastly, vulturine face.
Bowes was recalled; Morton, to whom English aid had been promised, was left to take his chances. Morton had warning from Lord Robert Stewart, Mary's half-brother, to fly the country, for Sir James Balfour, with his information, had landed. On December 31, 1580, Captain Stewart accused Morton, in presence of the Council, of complicity in Darnley's murder.
The much darker accusation against Buchanan, that he was a party to, or indeed the most active agent in, the forging of certain letters reported to have been sent by Mary to Bothwell before Darnley's murder, and known far and wide as the Casket Letters, seems to rest upon nothing but conjecture.
Gracefully and respectfully, with statesmanlike yet feminine dexterity, the demands of Darnley's father for justice on the murderers of his son were accepted and eluded by his daughter-in-law. Bothwell, with a troop of fifty men, rode through Edinburgh defiantly denouncing vengeance on his concealed accusers.
There was not much difficulty, then, in persuading her to bring a charge of adultery against her husband. Bothwell confessed that he had had criminal intercourse with a relative of his wife, and the Archbishop of St. Andrews, the same who had taken up his abode in that solitary house at Kirk of Field to be present at Darnley's death, pronounced the marriage null.
The match with Darnley, too, as he was in the English succession, was distasteful to Elizabeth; but in order to divert the Spanish match which, really, though she knew it not, was out of the question she pretended to favour Darnley's suit at first.
"Well, who is he?" cried Fred, sprinkling a little salt upon the burning flesh. "There is but one gang of bushrangers in these parts who inflict wanton injury upon the goods of carriers. That gang is Darnley's!" "And yet you pardoned him once when he was in your power," I said. "True; and had I been here my cargo would have escaped molestation. He little thought that he was injuring me.
"In a few minutes Darnley's head, which he had supported upon his hand, sank upon his pillow; 'the pipe dropped from his mouth, and by his heavy breathing I knew that he slept. Wicked thoughts then crowded upon my mind.
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