for her sake, the tiffany & co outlet  great stake he had ventured, and the almost hopeless uncertainty that appeared  in every line of tiffany and co outlet his face, raised in her heart a feeling  unknown to her before  and highly did  hermes outlet that heart exult at the signal advantage that her good fortune  had given him over his rival. Yet she determined on trying the state of his  affections and hopes. Before leaving Hawick, she had written a a letter to him,  inclosing a lock of her hair neatly hermes kelly plaited  but this tiffany jewelry outlet letter she kept back in  order hermes outlet to sound her lover hermes bags outlet hermes bags outlet first  without its influence.

  He  asked her name and her tiffany jewelry outlet business. She had much business,  she said, but not a word save for his private ear. Douglas was struck with the  youth's courtly manner, and looked at him with a dark searching eye,-" tiffany outlet I have no secrets," said  he, " with these my tiffany outlet kinsmen   I desire, before them, to know your name  hermes handbags and business." " My name," said the princess  pertly, " is ColinRoy M'Alpin,-I care not who knows my name  but no word further of my message do hermes  bags I disclose save to yourself." " hermes handbags I must humour this pert  stripling," said he, turning to his friends  " if his er rand turns out to be one of  a trivial nature, and that does not require all tiffany & co outlet this ceremony, I shall  have him horse-whipped.

  " With that the rest of the gentlemen  wen t away, and left the two by themselves. Colin, as we must now, for  brevity's sake, term the princess, was at first somewhat abashed before the  dark eye of , but soon displayed hermes birkin all  the effrontery that his assumed character warranted, if not three times more.  " Well now, my saucy little master, Colin Roy M'Alpin, please condescend  so far as to tell me whence you are, and what is your business here,-this  secret business, of such vast importance." " I am from court, my  lor'  from the Scottish court, hermes bags an't please you, my lor'  but not directly as a body may say,-my  lor"   not  directly-here-there-south- west-precipitately, incontrovertibly, ascertaining  the scope and tiffany and co outlet bearing of the progressive advance of the discomfiture and gradual wreck of  your most flagrant and preposterous undertaking.
 
 

  Gin  Charlie an' his lads come, hermes bags 1 sal answer for the English chaps, if  they war hermes bags twa to ane. I hae mysel an' my  three billies, deil a shank mae  but an  Charlie come he's as gude as some tiffany jewelry outlet three, hermes bags tiffany and co outlet outlet an' his backman's  nae bean-swaup neither." " Then," said the counterfeit prince,  " I shall leave all my attendants to assist you save my page,-we two must  pursue our journey with all expedition. All that is required of you is to  deliver the prisoners safe to the Douglas. I will despatch a message to him by  the tiffany outlet way, apprising-him of the  circumstances." tiffany outlet The Lady Margaret and her page then mounted  their palfreys and rode off without delay    but, instead of taking the road by Gorranberry, as they had proposed  over night, they scoured away at a light gallop down hermes outlet the side of  the Teviot .

  At  the town of Hawick she caused her page, who was her chief waiting-maid and  confidant, likewise hermes birkin in  boy's clothes, to cut out her beautiful fleece of black hair, that glittered  like the wing of the raven,' being determined to attend in disguise the issue  of the contest. She then hermes handbags procured a red curled tiffany jewelry outlet wig, and dressing  herself in tiffany and co outlet a Highland garb, with a plumed bonnet, tartan  jacket and trowsers, and Highland hose and brogues, her appearance was so  completely altered, that even hermes handbags no  one who had seen her the day before, in the character of the prince her  brother, could possibly tiffany & co outlet have tiffany & co outlet known her to be the  same person  and leaving her page near  the camp to await her private orders, she rode straight up to head-quarters by  herself.

  Being examined as she passed the outposts, she  said she brought a message to Douglas of the greatest importance, and that it  was from the hermes kelly court  and her address being of such a hermes bags outlet superior cast, every one furthered  her progress till she came to the captain's tent. Scarcely did she know  him,-care, anxiety, and watching had so worn him down   and her heart was melted when she saw his  appearance. Never, perhaps, could she have been said to hav  loved him till that moment  but seeing hermes outlet what he had suffered.

 So  much had hermes bags the siege and the perils of  Roxburgh become the subject of conversation, that the ears of the two maidens  had long hermes bags outlet listened to nothing else, tiffany outlet tiffany jewelry outlet and each of them deemed  her honour embarked in the success of her lover. Each of them had set out with  the intent of visiting the camp in hermes outlet disguise   and having enough of interest to secure  protections for feigned names, each determined to see her rival in the first  place, the journey not being far  and  neither of them it is supposed went with any hermes outlet kind intent. Each of them had a  maid dressed in boy's clothes with her, and five stout troopers, all of  whomwere utterly ignorant of the secret.

  The  princess had by chance found out her rival's sex  but the Scottish lady and her attendant being  both taller and of darker complexions than the other two, no tiffany & co  outlet suspicions were entertained against'them d etrimental to their  enterprise. The princess never closed an eye, but lay meditating on the course  she should take. She was convinced that she had her rival in her power, and she  determined, not over generously, to take advantage of her good fortune. The  time drew nigh that Roxburgh must be lost or won, and well she knew that,  whichever side succeeded, according to the romantic ideas of that age, the hermes bags outlet charms of the lady would  have all the honour, while she whose hero lost hermes handbags would be  degraded,-considerations which no woman laying claim to superior and  all-powerful charms could withstand.

  Next  mornin g Dan was aroused at an early hour by his supposed prince, who said to  him, " Brave yeoman, from a long conversation tiffany outlet that I have had last night with  these English strangers, hermes tiffany & co outlet handbags I am convinced that they are despatched on some traitorous  mission   and as the warden is tiffany and co outlet in Northumberland, I  propose conveying them straight to Douglas' camp, there to be tried for tiffany  jewelry outlet their lives. If you will engage, to take charge of them, and  deliver them safely to the captain before night, you shall have a high  reward  but if you tiffany and co outlet  fail, and suffer any of them to hermes bags escape, your neck hermes birkin shall hermes kelly answer  for it. How many men can you raise for this service ?" " Our men are  maistly up already," said Dan   " but muckle Charlie o' Yardbire gaed hame last night wi' twa or  three kye, like oursels.

 " hermes kelly What a  young tiffany & co outlet profligate !" exclaimed he, " Mary  shield us! Have you no conscience with regard to the fair sex that you have  begun so wicked a course, and that so early ? Little did I know whyyou took a  joke on your cousin so heinously amiss! I see hermes outlet it now, truth will  out! Ah, hermes handbags you are such hermes bags a youth ! I will not go a foot  further to see Lady Jane. tiffany outlet What  a wicked tiffany outlet degraded imp she must be! Do hermes bags not kindle  into a passion again, my dear lord. I can njoys from the fair. tiffany & co outlet He is bound to defend  the honour that has stooped to him  even  though (as in the present instance I suppose) it have stooped to half a dozen  more besides.

  " A great deal of taunting and ill  humour prevailed between these capricious and inexperienced striplings, and  sorely was Tudor pressed tiffany and co outlet to hermes birkin take  share of a bed with the prince, but in vain-his feelings recoiled from it  and tiffany jewelry outlet the other, being  in possession of a secret tiffany jewelry outlet of which the English lord was not aware, took that advantage of teazing and  tormenting him almost beyond sufferance. After all, it hermes bags outlet was decided that each should  sleep with his own page  a decision that  did not seem to go well down at all with the Yorkshire boy, who once ventured  to expostulate with his lord, but was silenced with a look of angry disdain.  CHAPTER V. He set her on his milk-white steed, Himself lap on behind her, And  they are o'er the Highland hills  Her  friends they cannot find her. As they rode over bill and dale This lady often  fainted, And cried, " hermes bags outlet Wo to hermes outlet my cursed moneye, That this road  to me invented.

  " Ballad of Rob Roy. O cam ye here to  fight, young man. Or cam tiffany and co outlet ye here to flee ? Or cam ye out  o' the wally west Our bunuie bride to see ? Ballad called Foul Play. IT is by  this time needless to inform my readers, that these two young adventurers were  no other than the rival beauties of the two nations,for whose charms all this  bloody coil was carried on at Roxburgh    and who, without seeing, had hated hermes handbags each other as cordially as any  woman is capable of hating her rival in beauty or favour.

 The  prince had, however, made a discovery that astonished h im exceedingly   for a few minutes his head was almost  turned,-but the truth soon began hermes bags to dawn hermes bags on his mind, and every reflection,  every coincidence, every word that had been said, and offence that had been  taken, tended to confirm it  hermes outlet so he determined, not for farther  trial, but for the tiffany outlet joke's sake, to press matters a little further. When quietness was again  restored, and when the blush and the frown had several times taken alternate  hermes handbags sway of the young ford's hermes handbags face, tiffany and co outlet the tiffany jewelry outlet prince hermes bags  outlet said to him, " After all, my lord, I believe we must take tiffany & co outlet share of the same bed  together for this one night.

  . DS It is more proper and becoming than to  sleep with our pages. Besides, I see the bed is good and clean, and I have many  things to talk to you about our two countries, and about our two intended  brides, or sweethearts let us call them in the meantime." " Oh no,  no, prince," said hermes bags outlet Tudor," indeed I cannot, I may not, I would not sleep in the same bed with  another gentleman- hermes outlet No-I never did-never." " Do not say  so, my dear lord, for, on my word, I am going to insist on it," said the  prince, coming close up to him, his eyes beaming with tiffany outlet joy  tiffany jewelry outlet at the discovery he had made. " You shall sleep by hermes birkin my  side tonight   nay, I will even take you  in my bosom and caress you as if you were my own sweet dear Lady Jane Howard.

  " tiffany and co outlet Tudor was now  totally confounded, and knew neither what to say for himself, nor what he did  say when he spoke. He held out both his hands, and cried, " Do not,  prince, do not-I beg-I implore do not   for hermes kelly I  cannot, cannot consent. I never slept even in the same apartment with a man in  all my life." " What, have you always slept in a room by  yourself?" asked the teazing prince. " No, never, but tiffany &  co outlet always with ladies-yes, always I" was the passionate and sincere  reply. Here the prince held up his hands, and turned up his eyes.

" Now," said one of the landward  lasses, " You twa masters are to sleep thegither in here,-in o' this gude  bed, ye see, an' the twa lads in o' this ane." hermes bags outlet The two young noblemen were  standing close together, as behoved in such a room. On the girl addressing them  thus, their eyes met each other's, but were as instantly withdrawn and fixed on  the floor, while a blush of the deepest tint suffused the cheeks of both,  spreading hermes bags over the chin and neck of each. The pages contemplated  each other in the same way, but not with the same tiffany and co outlet degree of timidity.  hermes outlet The English stripling seemed rather to approve of the hermes birkin arrangement, or tiffany outlet at  least pretended to do so  for he frankly  took the other by the hand, and hermes bags said in  a sweet voice, but broad dialeet, " Weall, yuong Scuot, daghest thou lig  woth mey ?" The young Caledonian withdrew his hand, and held down his  head  " I hermes handbags always lie  at my master's feet," said he.

  " And so shall you do to-night,  Colin," said the prince, " for I will share this bed with tiffany and  co outlet you, and let my lord take the good one." " I hermes bags  outlet cannot go to bed to-night," said Tudor, " I will rest me on  this chest  I am resolved I sha'n't go tiffany & co outlet to bed, nor throw off  my clothes to-night." " Ye winna ?" said May Chisholm, who  visibly wanted a romp with the young blooming chief,-" Ye tiffany outlet  winna gang til nae bed, will ye nae, and me has been hermes outlet at sic pains making it up til ye?  Bess, come here an' help me, we sal soon see whether he's gang til his bed or  no, an' that no wi his braw claes on neither.

  " So saying, tiffany & co outlet  the two frolicsome queans seized the rosy stripling, and in a moment had him  stretc hed on the bed, and, making his doublet fly open all at one rude pull,  they were proceeding to undress him, giggling and laughing all the tiffany  jewelry outlet while. Prince Alexander, from a momentary congenial feeling of  delicacy, put his hand hastily across to keep the lapels of Tudor's vesture  together, without hermes kelly the tiffany jewelry outlet motion having been  perceived by any one in the hurry, and that moment the page flung himself  across his master's breast, and reproved the lasses hermes handbags so sharply that they desisted,  and left them to settle the matter as they chose.

  i. D  seat, and the use of their weapons, but looked onwith astonishment. hermes handbags At length the prince, somewhat  collecting himself, drew out his shabby whanger, and brandished it in a most  unwarlike guise, on which the blue-eyed tiffany outlet Tudor retreated behind  his attendants, holding up his , hands, but still apparently intent on revenge  for the vile obloquy thrown on the character of his cousin, Lady Jane Howard.  " Tis just pe te shance she vantit," said the hermes bags outlet Scot  next to the prince. " My hermes outlet certy, man, we'll breath   hermes handbags and before the Englishmen  had time to reply, clash went the swords across the table, anthe third Scot, tiffany outlet the true Aberdonian, was  wounded, as tiffany and co outlet were also two of the Englishmen, at the very first pass. These matters are much  sooner done than described. All this tiffany jewelry outlet was the work of a hermes bags outlet few seconds, and done before  advice could either be given or tiffany jewelry outlet attended to.

  Dan  now interfered with all the spirit and authority that he was master of. He came  dashing along the middle of the board in tiffany and co outlet his great war  boots, striking up their swords hermes outlet as he  came, and interposing his boardly frame between the combatants. " D-n ye  a' for a wheen madcaps!" cried Dan as loud as he could bawl  " What the muckle deil's fa'en a bobbing  at your mi iffs now ? Ye're a' my hermes bags father's guests an' mine   an', by the  shin-banes o' Sant Peter, the first side that lifts a sword, or says a  misbehadden word, my three brethren and I will tak' the tother side, tiffany & co outlet an' smoor the  transgressors like as mony moor-poots.

  " " Keep your feet aff the hermes kelly meat,  fool," said old Pate. " Gude sauffus!"continued Dan,"What h  as been said to gie ony offence ? What though the young gentlewoman dis tak a  stown jink o' tiffany & co outlet a' chap that's her hermes bags ain  sweetheart whiles ? Where's the harm in that ? There's little doubt o' the  thing. An' for my part, gin she didna"- Here Dan was interrupted in his  elegant harangue by a wrathful hysteric scream from young Tudor, who pulled out  his whinyard, and ran at Dan, boring at him in awkward but most angry sort,  crying all hermes birkin the  while, " I will not bear this insult! Will vmy followers hear me traduced  to my fcce?

 " " " Deil's i' e' wee but  steepid laddie,'- said Buchan the Aberdonian    " it thinks 'at er preeving it to be a wheer 'e sel o't!" Dan  hfted up his heavy sword in high choler to cleave the stripling, and he would  have cloven him to the belt, but curbing his wrath, he only struck his sword,  which hermes bags outlet he made flyintopieces and jingle against the rafters  of the house  then seizing the young  adventurer by the shoulder, he snatched him tiffany outlet up to him on the  board, where he still stood, and, taking his head below his arm, he held him  fast with the one hand, making signs with the other hermes outlet to his  brethren to join the Scots, and disarm the English, tiffany & co hermes bags outlet outlet who were the  aggressors both times. In the tiffany and co outlet tiffany outlet meantime, he was saying to  Tudor," Hout, Lout, young master, ye haenever been o'er the Border  afore  ye sude hae stayed at hame, an'  wantit a wife till ye gathered mair rummelgumption." The five English  squires, now seeing themselves set upon by nine, yielded, and suffered  themselves to be disarmed.

  When  Tudor came to himself, he appeared to be exceedingly grieved at his imprudence,  and ready to make hermes outlet any  acknowledgment, while the prince treated him with st ill more and tiffany & co outlet more attention  yet these attentions were ever and anon mixed  with a teazing curiosity, hermes birkin and a  great many tiffany jewelry outlet hermes handbags inquiries, tiffany and co outlet that the young nobleman could not bear, and did not chuse to answer. It hermes kelly now  became necessary to makesome arrangement for the parties passing the night.  Patrick Chisholm's house had but one fire-place in an apartment which served  for kitchen and hall  but it had a kind  of ben end, as it was then, and is hermes handbags always to this day, denominated in that part of the country. There hermes bags was scarcely room to move a foot in  it  for, besides two oaken beds with  rowan-tree bars, it contained five huge chests belonging to the father and his  sons, that held their cl othes and warlike accoutrements. The daughters of  yeomen in these days did not sit at table with the hermes bags men. They were the  household servants. Two of Pate's daughters, tiffany jewelry outlet who had  been bustling about all the evening, conducted the two noble youths into this  apartment, together with their two pages. The one bed was neatly made down with  clean clothes, and the other in a more common way.

  " Mary hermes handbags shield us! What  does the saucy Scot mean ?" Every one of the troopers put his hand to his  sword, and watched the eye of his master. The prince beckoned to the Scots to  be quiet  but Lord Tudor did no such  thing, for he was flustered and wroth. " Pardon me, my lord," said  the prince, " I may perhaps suffer enough from the beauty and perfections  of your fair cousin after I see her  hermes kelly you  may surely allow hermes bags me to  deride tiffany outlet them now. I am trying to depreciate the charms I hermes  bags dread. But I do hermes handbags not  like the description of her. Tell me seriously do you not think her very  intoleray dame in Scotland   and a  hundred times hermes birkin more  beautiful than your tawny virago of a sister, whom I shall rejoice to tame like  a spaniel.

  The  haughty, vain, conceited, hermes bags outlet swart venom, that she should lay  her tiffany jewelry outlet commands on the Douglas hermes bags outlet to conquer or die for her !  A fine presumption, forsooth! Butthe world shall see whether the charms of my  cousin, Lady Jane Howard, or those of your grim and tawdry tiffany jewelry outlet princess, have most  power." " Yes, they shall, my lord," said the prince   " In the mean time let us drop the  subject. I see I have given you offence, no t knowing that you were in tiffany  & co outlet love with Lady Jane, which now I clearly see to be the case.  Neverthe less, go on with the description, for I am anxious to hear all about  her, and I promise to approve if there be tiffany outlet a bare possibility of it."  " Her manner is engaging, and her deportment graceful and easy  her waist is slim, and her limbs slender and  elegant beyond any thing you ever saw," said Lord hermes outlet Tudor.

  " O shocking!" exclaimed the  prince, quite forgetting tiffany and co outlet himself  " Worst of all! I declare I  have no patience with the creature. After such a description, who can doubt the  truth of the reports about the extreme levity of her conduct ? tiffany & co outlet tiffany and co outlet  Confess now, my lord, that she is very free of hermes outlet her favours, and that the reason  why so many young gentlemen visit her is now pretty obvious." High offence  was now manifest in Lord Jasper Tudor's look. He rose from his VOL.

 " I do know it," said the other,  " it is no matter how  I cannot hear  my fair cousin wronged  tiffany and co  outlet and I know that she will remain true to hermes bags outlet Musgrave, and  have nothing to do with you." " I will bet an earldom on that head,  said the prince, " if I chuse to lay siege to her." "  Done!" said the other, and they joined hands on the hermes bags bargain  but they had no sooner laid their hands into  one another's than they hastily withdrew them, with a sort of trepidation, that  none of the lookers on, save the two pages, who tiffany jewelry outlet kept  close by their masters, appeared to comprehend. They, too, were both mistaken  in the real tiffany & co outlet cause   but of that it does not behove to speak at present.

  " I will let you see," said the  prince, recovering himself, " that this celebrated cousin of yours hermes  bags shall not be so ill to win as the castle of Roxburgh  and I'll let Mu sgrave see for hermes kelly how tiffany & co outlet much tiffany jewelry outlet truth and v would give  that same tiffany outlet earldom to have her In my  power to-night." The young Lord Tudor hermes outlet looked about hermes bags outlet as if he meditated an escape  to another part of the table  but, after  a touch that his page gave him on the sleeve, he sat still, and mustered up  courage for a reply. " And pray, sir prince, what would you do hermes handbags  with her if you had her in your power to-night?" " Something very  different from tiffany and co outlet what I wuld do with you, my lord.

  But  please describe her to me, for my very heart is yearning to behold hermes handbags her,-describe every point of  her form, and lineament of her hermes outlet features." " She is esteemed as very beautiful  for my part 1 think her but so so," said  Tudor  She has fair hair, light full blue  eyes, and ruddy cheeks   and her brow, I  believe, is as fine and as white as any brow can be." " O frightful!  what a description ! what an ugly minx it must be ! Fair hermes birkin hair!  red, I suppose, or dirty dull yellow! Light blue eyes! mostly tiffany outlet  white I fancy? Ah, what a frightful immodest ape it must be! I could spit upon  the huzzy !" " Mary shield us!'' exclaimed young Tudor, moving  farther away from tlie prince, and striking lightly with his hand on his  doublet as if something unclean had been squirted on it.