The monastery; The abbot.

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"We n.ust drive out the cows first," said Mysie, " for a sin it were to
spoil the poor widow's cattle, both for her sake and the poor beasts' own;
and I have no mind any one shall leave the tower in a hurry to follow us.
Besides, you must have your horse, for you will need a fleet one ere all be
done."
So saying, she locked and double-locked both the inward and outward
door of the tower, proceeded to the cow-house, turned out the cattle, and,
giving the knight his own horse to lead, drove them before her out at the
court-yard gate, intending to return for her own palfrey. But the noise attending the first operation caught the wakeful attention of Edward, who,
starting to the bartizan, called to know what the matter was.
Mysie answered with great readiness, that "she was driving out the cows,
for that they would be spoiled for want of looking to."
"I tha ththee, kind maiden," said Edward " and yet," he added, after
a moment's pause, "what damsel is that thou hast with thee?"
Mysie was about to answer, when Sir Piercie Shafton, who apparently did
not desire that the great work of his liberation should be executed without
the interposition of his own ingenuity, exclaimed from beneath, " I am she,
0 most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky-mothers
of the herd."
"Hell and darkness " exclaimed Edward, in a transport of fury and
astonishment, "it is Piercie Shafton-What! treason! treason!-ho!-Dan
-Jasper-Martin — the villain escapes!"
"To horse! to horse!" cried Mysie, and in an instant mounted behind
the knight, who was already in the saddle.
Edward caught up a cross-bow, and let fly a bolt, which whistled so near
Mysie's ear, that she called to her companion,-" Spur-spur, Sir Knight!
-the next will not miss us.-Had it been Halbert instead of Edward who
bent that bow, we had been dead."
The knight pressed his horse, which dashed past the cows, and down the
knoll on which the tower was situated. Then taking the road down the
valley, the gallant animal, reckless of its double burden, soon conveyed them
out of hearing of the tumult and alarm with which their departure filled the
Tower of Glendearg.
Thus it strangely happened, that two men were flying in different directions at the same time, each accused of being the other's murderer.
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--- Sure he cannot
Be so unmanly as to leave me here;
If he do, maids will not so easily
Trust men again.
THE Two NOBLE KINSMEN.
THE knight continued to keep the good horse at a pace as quick as the
road permitted, until they had cleared the valley of Glendearg, and entered
upon the broad dale of the Tweed, which now rolled before them in crystal
beauty, displaying on its opposite bank the huge gray Monastery of St.
Mary's, whose towers and pinnacles were scarce yet touched by the newlyrisen sun, so deeply the edifice lies shrouded under the mountains which
rise to the southward.
Turning to the left, the knight continued his road down to the northern