r soul as price.
She asked that her body might not be buried underground, but that the
coffin containing her should be stood upright in the family vault of
Kirkliston. While she remained so placed, she said, the Dalrymples
should flourish. But woe betide the line when that coffin should be
moved and laid on common earth as those of common people. Her orders
were carried out. Does she, a dismal sentry, keep guard there still? And
what sort of a Purgatory has her poor soul had to pass through to atone
for the cruel murder of the child she bore?
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