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this little "Darnley" book & reading
even the preface, you will get me in
tabloid form.

In a word I think that
both Mary & Knox, had each a better
strain in them than is generally supposed.
Knox discerned that strain in her &
might have by it eliminated the French
wickedness & uplifted her: but Both-
well bedevilled her & Knox failed.
Mary discerned, again, a strain
in Knox, to which the great world has