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...THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE ...................................................................................................... 57 CHAPTER VII THE BLAST OF THE WHISTLE................................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER VIII THE KEY OF THE CIPHER ..............................................................................

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...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Elec... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication... ...of the destruction of the ship, but he did not give them full credit. “The fellows say the ship drove on the rock, and that they saw her boats go down... ...t it out in good time, and had the guard beneath my lady’s window, and the fellows are in gyves, and to see the lady the day it was found out! Not a w... ...both the nobility and higher gentry. “I may, however, send him to study at Cambridge under some trusty pedagogue. Back at the castle I cannot have him... ...only grow, while yonder sour-faced doctor, with whom I had to leave him at Cambridge, preaches to him of the perdition of Pope and Papists.” “If his m... ...through Woden to Adam and Eve! Pass for all before the Stewart line became Kings of Scots! Well, it seems that these Lennox Stewarts sprang from one W... ...ith respect be it spoken, more the stuff that court fools are made of than kings. It may be, as a learned man told 175 Charlotte M. Yong... ...side, consisting of a number of sets of separate chambers, like those of a college, opening on a quad- rangle in the centre, and with one side occupie...

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...is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into the room....

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