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My Aunt Margaret's Mirror | Sir Walter Scott | |
Chapter II |
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* "And did this tragedy," said I, "take place exactly at the time when the scene in the mirror was exhibited?" "It is hard to be obliged to maim one's story," answered my aunt, "but to speak the truth, it happened some days sooner than the apparition was exhibited." "And so there remained a possibility," said I, "that by some secret and speedy communication the artist might have received early intelligence of that incident." "The incredulous pretended so," replied my aunt. "What became of the adept?" demanded I. "Why, a warrant came down shortly afterwards to arrest him for high treason, as an agent of the Chevalier St. George; and Lady Bothwell, recollecting the hints which had escaped the doctor, an ardent friend of the Protestant succession, did then call to remembrance that this man was chiefly PRONE among the ancient matrons of her own political persuasion. It certainly seemed probable that intelligence from the Continent, which could easily have been transmitted by an active and powerful agent, might have enabled him to prepare such a scene of phantasmagoria as she had herself witnessed. Yet there were so many difficulties in assigning a natural explanation, that, to the day of her death, she remained in great doubt on the subject, and much disposed to cut the Gordian knot by admitting the existence of supernatural agency." "But, my dear aunt," said I, "what became of the man of skill?" |
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