improved by tract of time
We were now so far inland that none of my fellow-passengers had probably ever stood on the wharf of a larger sea-port, for I was the first American they had seen; and the surprise was ejaculative that I was white, and increased to wonder when they learnt that I had made the passage from America to Europe in only twenty days.
The advent of Darnley, and the termination of the Queen’s six years’ widowhood by her union with the “lady-faced long lad,” freed the Maries from their word. Within eighteen months of that event three of the four had entered the ranks of matronage. The first to leave the virgin sisterhood was Mary Livingstone, who, aided by a dowry from the Queen of land worth £500 a year, married John, a younger son of Lord Sempill. A few months later Mary Beton married Alexander Ogilvie, Laird of Boyne; and, early in the following year, Mary Fleming made the most surprising of matches, becoming the wife of the Secretary of State, Maitland of Lethington, who was neither noble nor rich, and was twenty years older than his bride. / So, of “the Queen’s Maries,” Mary Seton alone remained single.
You may discourse of Hermes' ascending spirit, of Orpheus' enchanting harp, of Homer's divine fury, of Tyrtaeus' enraging trumpet, of Pericles' bouncing thunderclaps, of Plato's enthusiastical ravishment, and I wot not what marvellous eggs in moonshine: but a fly for all your flying speculations when one good-fellow with his odd jests, or one mad knave with his awk hibber-gibber, is able to put down twenty of your smuggest artificial men, that simper it so nicely and coyly in their curious points.
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