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disposal of her popish relatives; but Providence mercifully prolonged the years of this illustrious female, until Dulsibella reached the age of seventeen. The dying Baroness had committed her child, as a sacred trust, to her grandmother; and she saw no material objection to a retreat from the vicinity of a court, where she perceived with horror the prevalence of dissimulation and frenchified manners, that would perhaps undermine the principles of religion and morals she was anxious to implant, cherish, and establish, in the heart of her charge. She had, besides, a young relation to whom she wished to intrust the present and future happiness of Dulsibella. Lord Glenonan had volunteered his aid to the Hollanders against the superstitious tyranny of Spain. His command of money and his valorous services had essentially promoted the triumph of the Protestant cause in the Netherlands. He had returned to Scotland, crowned with unfading laurels, about the time that the aged Baroness was seized with her last illness. By her own express desire she was interred at St. Columba—a strange appointment by a Protestant, but not without a right motive, as will soon appear in relating its consequences.

Having given a summary of the particulars collected from her jovial domestics, we shall follow the lady Dulsibella to her bower. Alice