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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER II
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Seek some court lady, to whom your favours will be honour; to me--your Highness must permit me to speak the plain truth--they can be nothing but disgrace." As they spoke thus, the party arrived at the gate of the church.
"Your lordship will, I trust, permit us here to take leave of you ?" said her father.

"I am well aware how little you will alter your pleasure for the pain and uneasiness you may give to such as us but, from the throng of attendants at the gate, your lordship may see that there are others in the church to whom even your gracious lordship must pay respect." "Yes--respect; and who pays any respect to me ?" said the haughty young lord.

"A miserable artisan and his daughter, too much honoured by my slightest notice, have the insolence to tell me that my notice dishonours them.

Well, my princess of white doe skin and blue silk, I will teach you to rue this." As he murmured thus, the glover and his daughter entered the Dominican church, and their attendant, Conachar, in attempting to follow them closely, jostled, it may be not unwillingly, the young nobleman.

The gallant, starting from his unpleasing reverie, and perhaps considering this as an intentional insult, seized on the young man by the breast, struck him, and threw him from him.


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