CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER

  1. [The Earl and the Queen]
  2. [The Weaponshaw]
  3. [The Handkerchief]
  4. [The Leith Wynd Porte]
  5. [The Red Lion]
  6. [The Earl of Morton]
  7. [Morton turns Philanthropist]
  8. [John of Park]
  9. [The Conflict in Hermitage Glen]
  10. [The Pit of Hermitage]
  11. [Bothwell revives an Early Dream]
  12. [Alison Craig]
  13. [Four Choice Spirits]
  14. [The Gleewomen]
  15. [A Moment Long Wished For]
  16. [Anna and the Queen]
  17. [The Bouquet]
  18. [Jealousy without Love]
  19. [Mariette and Darnley]
  20. [The Plot Thickens—Conference of Craigmillar]
  21. [Father Tarbet]
  22. [The Whisper]
  23. [The Mother and her Child]
  24. [The King's Page]
  25. [In Three Hours it will be Time!]
  26. [The Old Tower of Holyrood]

BOTHWELL;

OR,

THE DAYS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE EARL AND THE QUEEN.

For since the time when Adam first

Embraced his Eve in happy hour!

And every bird of Eden burst

In carol, every bird and flower;

What eyes like thine have waken'd hopes?

What lips like thine so sweetly join'd?

Where on the double rosebud droops

The fulness of the pensive mind.

Tennyson.

Bothwell stooped and entered; the arras closed behind him, and his rich attire gleamed in the full flush of the noonday sun, that streamed through a mullioned casement opposite.