An old woman might have been in some danger; and as for my Lord Provost, as they call him, if they had clipped off some of his fat acres, it would have been some atonement for the needless brave he put on me in St.John's church." "Methinks, John, it was but a base revenge," said Rothsay.
"Rest ye contented, my lord.

He that cannot right himself by the hand must use his head.

Well, that chance was over by the tender hearted Douglas's declaring in favour of tender conscience; and then, my lord, old Henshaw found no further objections to carrying the Fair Maid of Perth to Falkland, not to share the dulness of the Lady Marjory's society, as Sir Patrick Charteris and she herself doth opine, but to keep your Highness from tiring when we return from hunting in the park." There was again a long pause, in which the Prince seemed to muse deeply.
At length he spoke.

"Ramorny, I have a scruple in this matter; but if I name it to thee, the devil of sophistry, with which thou art possessed, will argue it out of me, as it has done many others.

This girl is the most beautiful, one excepted, whom I ever saw or knew; and I like her the more that she bears some features of--Elizabeth of Dunbar.