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Chapter the Twenty-Eighth
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He is at liberty, I have ventured for him!
——————————————— if the law
Find and condemn1 me for’t, some living wenches,
Some honest-hearted maids will sing my dirge2,
And tell to memory my death was noble,
Dying almost a martyr3.
The two noble kinsmen5.
The Sub-Prior of Saint Mary’s, in taking his departure from the spence which Sir Piercie Shafton was confined, and in which some preparations were made for his passing the night as the room which might be most conveniently guarded, left more than one perplexed6 person behind him. There was connected with this chamber7, and opening into it, a small outshot, or projecting part of the building, occupied by a sleeping apartment, which upon ordinary occasions, was that of Mary Avenel, and which, in the unusual number of guests who had come to the tower on the former evening, had also accommodated Mysie Happer, the Miller’s daughter; for anciently, as well as in the present day, a Scottish house was always rather too narrow and limited for the extent of the owner’s hospitality, and some shift and contrivance was necessary, upon any unusual occasion, to ensure the accommodation of all the guests.
The fatal news of Halbert Glendinning’s death had thrown all former arrangements into confusion. Mary Avenel, whose case required immediate8 attention, had been transported into the apartment hitherto occupied by Halbert and his brother, as the latter proposed to watch all night, in order to prevent the escape of the prisoner. Poor Mysie had been altogether overlooked, and had naturally enough betaken herself to the little apartment which she had hitherto occupied, ignorant that the spence, through which lay the only access to it, was to be the sleeping chamber of Sir Piercie Shafton. The measures taken for securing him there had been so sudden, that she was not aware of it, until she found that the other females had been removed from the spence by the Sub-Prior’s direction, and having once missed the opportunity of retreating along with them, bashfulness, and the high respect which she was taught to bear to the
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vengeance
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