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This, however, was not an aspect of hers that struck one forcibly; he had generally seen her compassionate, cheerful, and considerate. Then he told himself that there was no reason why he should take any interest in Flora Grant's qualities. "I suppose Langside will be sold up," he said. "Open auction, though I guess there won't be much bidding.
She turned from him in contempt, and surrendered to the lords; while Bothwell fled, and unhappy Mary saw him no more. V. Langside and After Cursed by crowds, who reviled her as a murderess and adulteress, Mary was led, a captive, to her capital. By night, to save her from the fury of the mob, she was smuggled out of Edinburgh and lodged, a prisoner, in the island fortress of Lochleven.
"Have you been consulted?" he asked. "I understood," said Flora. "And I agreed." Her face was as hard as her father's and George was puzzled. "I should have thought you would have been inclined to mercy." Flora colored a little, but she looked at him steadily. "Langside deserves the punishment he has so far escaped.
She told the Scotch Council here in Edinburgh that, if they hurt a hair of her head, she would harry their country, and hang them all on the trees round the town, if she could find any trees there for that purpose. She tempted the queen to England with her fair promises after the battle of Langside, and then, to her astonishment, imprisoned her.
The unfortunate queen suffered great unkindness in her lonely confinement, and Knox, with the more zealous of his party, clamored for her death, as an adulteress and a murderer. She succeeded in escaping from her prison, raised an army, marched against the regent, was defeated at the battle of Langside, fled to England, and became, May, 1568, the prisoner-guest of her envious rival.
Her history, a brief sketch of which is given here, is interesting and pathetic. She escaped from Lochleven Castle, lost the Battle of Langside, and fled to England, 1568. She was beheaded February 8th, 1587, at Fotheringay Castle, in the forty-fifth year of her age, almost nineteen years of which she passed in captivity.
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