The young officer had performed his part with that graceful ease which had so won the affection of the great sovereign.
A slight shudder passed through the form of Lady Rosamond as she remembered his sad fate.

Thinking the present no time for boding ill-starred events, she hastily turned her mind from the subject.
As the Earl of Leicester, Captain Douglas was apparelled in white.

"His shoes were of white velvet, with white silk stockings, the upper part of white velvet lined with silver; his doublet, of cloth of silver; the close jerkin, of white velvet embroidered with silver and seed pearls; his girdle was of white velvet with buckles of gold.

The scabbard of his sword was of white velvet and gold; his poniard and sword belt mounted with gold.

Over he wore a loose robe of white satin with broad collar richly embroidered in gold.