Two Penniless Princesses

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Two Penniless Princesses

CHAPTER 1. DUNBAR

CHAPTER 2. DEPARTURE

CHAPTER 3. FALCON AND FETTERLOCK

CHAPTER 4. ST. HELEN S

CHAPTER 5. THE MEEK USURPER

CHAPTER 6. THE PRICE OF A GOOSE

CHAPTER 7. THE MINSTREL KING’S COURT

CHAPTER 8. STINGS

CHAPTER 9. BALCHENBURG

CHAPTER 10. TENDER AND TRUE

CHAPTER 11. FETTERS BROKEN

CHAPTER 12. SORROW ENDED

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The Lady of Glenuskie, as she was commonly called, was a near kinswoman of the Royal House, Lilias Stewart, a grand-daughter of King Robert II., and thus first cousin to the late King. Her brother, Malcolm Stewart, had resigned to her the little barony of Glenuskie upon his embracing the life of a priest, and her becoming the wife of Sir Patrick Drummond, the son of his former guardian.

Sir Patrick had served in France in the Scotch troop who came to the assistance of the Dauphin, until he was taken prisoner by his native monarch, James I., then present with the army of Henry V. He had then spent two years at Windsor, in attendance upon that prince, until both were set at liberty by the treaty made by Cardinal Beaufort. In the meantime, his betrothed, Lilias, being in danger at home, had been bestowed in the household of the Countess of Warwick, where she had been much with an admirable and saintly foreign lady, Esclairmonde de Luxembourg, who had taken refuge from the dissensions of her own vexed country among the charitable sisterhood of St. Katharine in the Docks in London.

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‘Sir, I will,’ said the young man, ‘I will plight my word to obey you, and faithfully, so long as I ride under your banner in foreign parts—provided such oath be not binding within this realm of Scotland, nor against my lealty to the head of my name.’

‘Nor do I ask it of thee,’ returned Sir Patrick heartily, but regarding him more attentively; ‘these are the scruples of a true man. Hast thou any following?’

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