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Identifier: marquisofmontros00buchuoft (find matches)
Title: The Marquis of Montrose
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Subjects: Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650 Scotland -- History Charles I, 1625-1649 Scotland -- History 1649-1660
Publisher: London : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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hat he should return to Scotland andrenew the war. As no reference was made to hisown proposals sent through Crawford, Montrose natu-rally refused to engage in an enterprise for which hehad no resources and no warrant from his master.Ashburnham then suggested that he should make hispeace with the Covenanters, following the royal prece-dent. The proposal was indignantly repudiated. Noteven the king, he said, should command his obediencein what was dishonourable, unjust, and destructive tohis Majesty himself. Early in the year 1647, tired of waiting on instruc-tions that never came, he set out for Paris. The queenreceived him graciously, but made it very clear that hiscounsels were not those most grateful to the royal ears.Jermyn and the rest gave him tepid smiles and the coldshoulder. To one of his temper the mingled sillinessand vice of Henriettas court must have been repulsivein the extreme. The king was a captive, the flower ofEnglish and Scottish chivalry had died for his sake, and
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^o lluic^ ^^zU^^^i^ Cy^/i^^ty?9u^y^u?n/ c^u^J C7n£iUe/> rJl^i/ce^- THE YEARS OF EXILE. 213 these mountebanks were turning life into a thing ofbackstairs gossip and idle laughter. It was suggestedthat his niece Lilias Napier should become a maid ofhonour, but Montrose sternly forbade it. There isneither Scots man nor woman welcome that way;neither would any of honour or virtue, chiefly a woman,suffer themselves to live in so lewd and worthless aplace. But if the tawdry court-in-exile had little tosay to him, Paris made amends. His fame had goneabroad throughout Europe, and the most distinguishedmen in France came to pay him their respects. Hewas given precedence before the regular ambassadors.Cardinal de Retz, who had followed his campaignswith admiration, welcomed him as a Roman hero re-born in a degenerate world. The great Mazarinoffered him the command of the Scots in France anda lieutenant-generalship in the French army; then thecaptaincy of the gendarmes, with a large pension

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