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plished Montrose, fails to embody him whom Cardinal de Retz allows, realised his beau ideal of the heroes of chivalry. Dugald Dalgetty has, however, the stamp of the master; and Annot Lyle glides through the whole like a sunbeam. Her fair face, and sweet voice, are the light of the picture; the one dream of the poet amid the tumult of faction, and the harsh realities of civil war.
