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Title: Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
Author: Charlotte M Yonge
Release Date: October, 2003 [Etext #4596] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 13, 2002]
Edition: 10
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Unknown to History
A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
By Charlotte M Yonge.
PREFACE.
In p. 58 of vol. ii. of the second edition of Miss Strickland's Life of Mary Queen of Scots, or p. 100, vol. v. of Burton's History of Scotland, will be found the report on which this tale is founded.
If circumstances regarding the Queen's captivity and Babington's plot have been found to be omitted, as well as many interesting personages in the suite of the captive Queen, it must be remembered that the art of the story-teller makes it needful to curtail some of the incidents which would render the narrative too complicated to be interesting to those who wish more for a view of noted characters in remarkable situations, than for a minute and accurate sifting of facts and evidence.
C. M. YONGE.
February 27, 1882.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE LITTLE WAIF
CHAPTER II. EVIL TIDINGS
CHAPTER III. THE CAPTIVE
CHAPTER IV. THE OAK AND THE OAKEN HALL
CHAPTER V. THE HUCKSTERING WOMAN
CHAPTER VI. THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE
CHAPTER VII. THE BLAST OF THE WHISTLE
CHAPTER VIII. THE KEY OF THE CIPHER
CHAPTER IX. UNQUIET
CHAPTER X. THE LADY ARBELL
