12/21 Saint Mary preserve your master and conduct you safely to him. Heselrigge will surely send in pursuit of me. He is too vile to forgive the truth I have spoken to him; and should I fall into his power, death is the best I could expect at his hands. Let me assist you to put this poor lady's remains into some decent place; and then, my honest Scot, we must separate." Halbert, at these words, threw himself upon the bosom of his mistress, and wept with loud lamentations over her. |