[The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fair Maid of Perth CHAPTER XII 4/26
"Bless thee, my son; and bless thee too, unhappy child.
Remembering where you put off your idle trinkets, may you take care how you again resume them!" "Alas, father!" said Louise, "if the poor foreigner could supply the mere wants of life by any more creditable occupation, she has small wish to profess her idle art.
But--" But the monk had vanished; nay, the very door though which she had just passed appeared to have vanished also, so curiously was it concealed beneath a flying buttress, and among the profuse ornaments of Gothic architecture. "Here is a woman let out by this private postern, sure enough," was Henry's reflection.
"Pray Heaven the good fathers never let any in! The place seems convenient for such games at bo peep.
But, Benedicite, what is to be done next? I must get rid of this quean as fast as I can; and I must see her safe.
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