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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER XXX
12/23

There will be much displeasure." "Mean you displeasure against yourself, my lord, or against me ?" "I have already said your Highness lies in ward here; but if you determine to break it, I have no warrant--God forbid--to put force on your inclinations.

I can but entreat your Highness, for your own sake--" "Of my own interest I am the best judge.

Good evening to you, my lord." The wilful Prince stepped into the boat with Dwining and Ramorny, and, waiting for no other attendance, Eviot pushed off the vessel, which descended the Tay rapidly by the assistance of sail and oar and of the ebb tide.
For some space the Duke of Rothsay appeared silent and moody, nor did his companions interrupt his reflections.

He raised his head at length and said: "My father loves a jest, and when all is over he will take this frolic at no more serious rate than it deserves--a fit of youth, with which he will deal as he has with others.

Yonder, my masters, shows the old hold of Kinfauns, frowning above the Tay.


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