Poor, poor, pretty lady! A free queen only six years, and think of the number of beds she slept in, and the number of trees she planted; we have already seen, I am afraid to say how many.

When did she govern, when did she scheme, above all when did she flirt, with all this racing and chasing over the country?
Mrs.M'Collop calls Anne of Denmark a 'sad scattercash' and Mary an 'awfu' gadabout,' and I am inclined to agree with her.

By the way, when she was making my bed this morning, she told me that her mother claimed descent from the Stewarts of Appin, whoever they may be.
She apologised for Queen Mary's defects as if she were a distant family connection.

If so, then the famous Stuart charm has been lost somewhere, for Mrs M'Collop certainly possesses no alluring curves of temperament." "I am going to select some distinguished ancestors this very minute, before I go to my first Edinburgh dinner," said I decidedly.

"It seems hard that ancestors should have everything to do with settling our nationality and our position in life, and we not have a word to say.