Capitolo 19
will obscurity envelop our earth? It is not so it the shame in cowardly ye to hold
his/her children, when in thy his/her own breast so a lot of devotion and the loyalty it has rest?
because not the judge others alone, my father and he/she knows the dark things of
which dream of ye cannot you/he/she never be?"
"You speakest like the enthusiastic one you art, my child. He/she anchors it is not the
rule of our unmarried queen that my spirit of premonition fears; 'the tis that on this way
a slender thread as young his/her life suspends the beneficence or the downfall
of his/her kingdom. If she were permitted of us to live and to reign on, all are able
both well; 'tis on the event of his/her death for which I tremble."
"You wait then up to the bad cometh of the day my father,; bring not it near from
anticipation; and it owes indeed such is, thinkest you there is not
daring hearts and faithful souls to protect our foreign enemy earth, and it gives
the correct heir his/her quota?"
"I don't know, Isabella. There remains but few with the Scottish and pure blood
inside their veins, and it is but to them our earth is so dear: them
the life of danger and you quarter in his/her defense. It is not to the proud baron
only come down by thrusting in him to him Norman, and thinking of his chivalrous
sport and increase of wealth, from that war doesn't care him. Neither challenge us
you look with trust at the wild heads of the north and the God of
the Islands; anxious to widen their his/her own dominoes to extend the terrors,
of their name, they will give gladly the welcome one the horrors and confusion that
you/he/she can rise; and it has us the true Scottish blood enough to weigh against
these, my child? Alas! Isabella, our only hope is in the health and
the beneficence of our queen, precarious as that is; but if she fails us pain,
to Scotland!"
The young Isabella could not introduce solid matters in answer
to this reasoning, and therefore she was silent; but she felt her/it
Scottish blood beats more express in its veins, as he spoke of the few pure
Being Scottish men, and he/she internally voted, woman as her was, to devote