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Side 17
... turned the light of the dark - lantern on my eyes . This strange visitation alarmed me . I started from my couch , with my eyes staring in astonishment , and cried : ' What do you want ? here I am coming ! ' I am ' Do not let us disturb ...
... turned the light of the dark - lantern on my eyes . This strange visitation alarmed me . I started from my couch , with my eyes staring in astonishment , and cried : ' What do you want ? here I am coming ! ' I am ' Do not let us disturb ...
Side 17
... turned his brain ; that he was mad ; and that I had not the honour of his acquaintance . Thus ended a night the most harassing I had yet experienced . After some days of suspense - during which it would have been a positive relief to be ...
... turned his brain ; that he was mad ; and that I had not the honour of his acquaintance . Thus ended a night the most harassing I had yet experienced . After some days of suspense - during which it would have been a positive relief to be ...
Side 17
... turned away from it , and with downcast feelings gazed around my prison . And this , then , thought I , is all the place which is allotted to me— this is my world until the time when I shall be released from life and absorbed into ...
... turned away from it , and with downcast feelings gazed around my prison . And this , then , thought I , is all the place which is allotted to me— this is my world until the time when I shall be released from life and absorbed into ...
Side 23
... turned for a moment towards me , brought back my confidence . The president made a sign to the secretary to read the sentences . His trembling hands could scarcely hold the fatal paper . He began , but his voice failed him ; and already ...
... turned for a moment towards me , brought back my confidence . The president made a sign to the secretary to read the sentences . His trembling hands could scarcely hold the fatal paper . He began , but his voice failed him ; and already ...
Side 24
... turned to look at the place . It was an oblong square , surrounded on every side with buildings , whose narrow grated windows and low iron - studded doors would have filled us with dismay had we been there merely as visitors . After ...
... turned to look at the place . It was an oblong square , surrounded on every side with buildings , whose narrow grated windows and low iron - studded doors would have filled us with dismay had we been there merely as visitors . After ...
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Admiral de Coligny Andrayne army began benevolent bite bonnie Braes busk called Catholic child Confalonieri daughter dear death distress door Dr Fulton Duke Duke of Guise Duke of Orleans eggs Eustache eyes fangs father feelings felt frae France Frank French friends girl grief hand happy head heard heart Helen Gray Henry hope Huguenots Jacobin Club Jane Jean Vigier Jeanne Jeanne d'Albret Jessie Jessie's kind king of Navarre lady League length living looked Louis Louis XVI maun means mind Minghini Monsieur Belin morning mother Napoleon never night noble Paris Pauline persons poor prince Prince of Condé prison Protestants reptile Robin Saint-Servan Salvotti seemed serpents shew sister snake St Germain-en-Laye suffering Sully thee thou thought tion Todlaw Mains took Uncle Joshua viper whilst wife woman words Yarrow young Logie
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Side 21 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now — upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Side 5 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 22 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, " Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down, with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Side 29 - ... grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysell in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Side 5 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Side 2 - Flows Yarrow sweet ? as sweet, as sweet flows Tweed, As green its grass, its gowan as yellow, As sweet smells on its braes the birk, The apple frae the rock as mellow.
Side 22 - Full fifteen stane o' Spanish iron, They hae laid a' right sair on me ; Wi' locks and keys I am fast bound Into this dungeon dark and dreirie.
Side 4 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
Side 1 - Lang maun she weep, lang maun she, maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow, And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.