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Submitting by the advice of one part of her subjects to the menace of the others, and learning that Lindesay was arrived in a boasting, that is, threatening humour, the Queen, "with some reluctancy, and with tears," saith Knox, subscribed one deed resigning her crown to her infant son, and another establishing the Earl of Murray regent.
His dress, which was a buff-coat embroidered, had a half-military character, but exhibited nothing of the sordid negligence which distinguished that of Lindesay.
The child was sitting up on her bed, clothed in the white garmentry of the night. Bending over her, with her arms round the heaving shoulders of the little girl, Sholto saw Maud Lindesay, clad in a dark, hooded mantle thrown with the appearance of haste about her.
Pay, therefore, to her all honour and respect, consistent with thy fidelity to the King and me and now, farewell. Yet stay you travel with Lord Lindesay, a man of the old world, rough and honest, though untaught; see that thou offend him not, for he is not patient of raillery, and thou, I have heard, art a crack-halter."
But neither of them uttered another word till they reached the drawbridge which crossed the nether moat and conducted to the noble gateway of Thrieve. Then, at the foot of the stairway to the hall, Sholto, having swung the little maid from her pony, after a moment of sullen hesitation went across to assist Mistress Maud Lindesay out of her saddle.
"Nay, by my hand," said Lord Lindesay, "I know not why we were cumbered with the good knight, unless he comes in place of the lump of sugar which pothicars put into their wholesome but bitter medicaments, to please a froward child a needless labour, methinks, where men have the means to make them swallow the physic otherwise."
And as Laurence MacKim, crouched in the dim obscurity of the curtained doorway, looked forth, this is what he saw. Maud Lindesay and Margaret Douglas advanced into the centre of the temple where was a slab of white marble let into the floor.
"And wherefore say you good-by to me?" cried Sholto, finding his words at once in the wholesome atmosphere of raillery which everywhere accompanied that quipsome damosel, Mistress Maud Lindesay. "Why, because we are humble folk, and must get our ways upstairs out of the way of dignities. Permit me to kiss your glove, fair lord!" and here she tripped down the steps and pretended to take his hand.
"Hush, Margaret," said Maud Lindesay. "It is useless to speak such words to such a man." The Marshal de Retz turned sharply to her. "Ah," he said, with a curious bite in his speech, "then, my young lady, you would not love me, even if I were to let you go!"
Character of the country Damage of provisions Adroitness of the natives in catching fish The skiff broken up Stream from the North-East supposed to be the Darling Change of country in descending the river Intercourse with the natives Prevalence of loathsome diseases among them Apparent populousness of the country Junction of several small streams The Rufus, the Lindesay, &c.
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