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My native land, good night!
Byron.
Many a bitter tear was shed, during the hasty flight of Queen Mary, over fallen hopes, future prospects1, and slaughtered2 friends. The deaths of the brave Douglas, and of the fiery4 but gallant5 young Seyton, seemed to affect the Queen as much as the fall from the throne, on which she had so nearly been again seated. Catherine Seyton devoured6 in secret her own grief, anxious to support the broken spirits of her mistress; and the Abbot, bending his troubled thoughts upon futurity, endeavoured in vain to form some plan which had a shadow of hope. The spirit of young Roland — for he also mingled7 in the hasty debates held by the companions of the Queen’s flight — continued unchecked and unbroken.
“Your Majesty8,” he said, “has lost a battle — Your ancestor, Bruce, lost seven successively, ere he sat triumphant9 on the Scottish throne, and proclaimed with the voice of a victor, in the field of Bannockburn, the independence of his country. Are not these heaths, which we may traverse at will, better than the locked, guarded, and lake-moated Castle of Lochleven?— We are free — in that one word there is comfort for all our losses.”
He struck a bold note, but the heart of Mary made no response.
“Better,” she said, “I had still been in Lochleven, than seen the slaughter3 made by rebels among the subjects who offered themselves to death for my sake. Speak not to me of farther efforts — they would only cost the lives of you, the friends who recommend them! I would not again undergo what I felt, when I saw from yonder mount the swords of the fell horsemen of Morton raging among the faithful Seytons and Hamiltons, for their

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consultation
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savage
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exclamation
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baron
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knight
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distressed
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blot
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homage
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astonishment
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adherents
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