"Groans!" reiterated the startled conspirator. "No"——
"By Heaven! I even heard a low wailing cry upon the wind."
"Go to! if thou hearest this before, what wilt thou hear after?"
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It is very remarkable that the Earl of Moray, (who is not said to have had any share in this conspiracy,) on the morning of that day should have left Holyrood suddenly, to visit his countess, who, he said, was seriously ill at St. Andrews; and it is still more remarkable, that when riding along the coast of Fife, attended by only one confidential retainer, he should—as Bishop Lesly informs us—burst out with these ominous words—
"This night, ere morning, the Lord Darnley shall lose his life!"
END OF VOLUME SECOND.
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