Liv^s  of  the  Lindsay i.  477

a  fray,  having  h\%  head  tied  up.  On  entering,  she  made  them  imme-
diately change  clothes ;  they  did  so,  and  on  the  expiration  of  the  half*
hour,  she,  in  a  flood  of  tears,  bade  farewell  to  her  supposed  father,  and
walked  out  of  the  prison  with  the  most  perfect  dignity,  and  with  a  slow
pace.  The  sentinel  at  the  draw-bridge,  a  sly  Highlander,  eyed  her
father  hard,  but  her  presence  of  mind  did  not  desert  her ;  she  twitched
her  train  of  embroidery,  carried  in  those  days  by  the  page,  out  of  his
hand,  and  dropping  it  in  the  mud,  *  Yarlet,*  cried  she,  in  a  fury,  dash-
ing it  across  his  face,  *  take  that — and  that  too,*  adding  a  box  on  the
ear,  *  for  knowing  no  better  how  to  carry  your  lady's  garment.*  Her
ill-treatment  of  him,  and  the  dirt  with  which  she  had  besmeared  his
face,  so  confounded  the  sentinel,  that  he  let  them  pass  the  drawbridge
unquestioned."  Having  passed  through  all  the  guards,  attended  by  a
gentleman  from  the  castle,  Lady  Sophia  entered  her  carriage,  which
was  in  waiting  for  her;  "  the  earl,"  says  a  contemporary  annahst,  "  steps
up  on  the  hinder  part  ^f  the  coach  as  her  lackey,  and,  coming  fore-
gainst  the  weighhouse,  slips  off  and  shifts  for  himself.*" — vol.  ii.
pp.  26,  27.
Lord  Lindsay  inserts  the  four  last  letters  that  Argyle  wrote.
