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rousing, by his constant attendance upon her, thejealousy of Darnley and the resentment of the assassins.A person of little grace, he was nevertheless a skilledmusician and linguist. He attended to the queen’s cor-respondence in French and was familiar with her affairs.@ She was holding a salon in Holyrood, her then regalresidence, on the night of the murder, the Countess ofArgyll, Rizzio and others being present, when Darnleyentered by the door of a secret staircase into the apart-ment se se How Darnley expiated this crime within a year, widow-ing Mary for the second time at twenty-five, is toofamiliar to need telling here. Just after Mary visitedhim, a small-pox patient in an isolated house, on the siteof the present, splendid university buildings, he wasfound dead in his garden, his house blown up. After the death of Rizzio, Mary fled with Darnley toDunbar, where she and her consort were received byHepburn, Earl of Bothwell. He was the master hand inthe death of Darnley, and him Mary took as her thirdhusband, within three months of Darnley’s death andimmediately after he had obtained annulment of hismarriage to Lady Jane Gordon. That was the end. Within sixty days she had abdicatedin favor of her infant son, herself to become a prisonerat Loch Leven, soon to infatuate her young jailer andto escape and seek refuge with cousinly Elizabeth.And beautiful, talented, emotional Queen Mary deservesthe sympathy, even the pity, of any who ever touchesor becomes acquainted with anything that was of her. = 64 —
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