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Old Fritz and the New Era

CHAPTER VI
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We have seen what we wished to see, and that is sufficient.

Give me thy arm, and let us depart." They departed arm in arm, withdrawing from the crowd, and taking the broad walk which crossed to the park.
"You were about to relate to me the answer which Mary Stuart gave to you, sir," said the Hercules, timidly.
"True; I will now relate it to you," he answered, with sadness.

"It was in Edinburgh I had surprised Mary (as I was admitted without ceremony), in her boudoir, as the handsome Rizzio sat at her feet, and sang love-songs to her.

She was resting upon a gold-embroidered divan, and her figure appeared to great advantage in the heavenly blue, silver-embroidered gauze robe, which covered her beautiful limbs like a cloud.

In her hair sparkled two diamonds, like two stars fallen from heaven, and more glowing still were her eyes, which tenderly rested upon Rizzio.


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