Excerpt from Mary Queen of Scots, Her Environment and Tragedy, Vol. 2: A BiographyAving thus bafiled Elizabeth and vanquished her brother, by far the most dangerous of all her Scottish foes, Mary, it might seem to some, was past the worst of her perplexities and troubles. Knowing nothing of fear, she was probably anticipating the future with higher hope than had been hers since Shefound herself in the hands of the Protestants. If her difficulties in the near future were still certain to be great, and if a hard fight was still before her, she had at least freed herself from the incubus of her precise brother she was now, so she fondly ¿attered herself, her Own mistress, and her destiny was, so far, under her own control. Since, however, her brother was not in her, but in Elizabeth's, hands, her triumph was more apparent than real, it was laden with curses rather than with blessings to her, and she was really on the very threshold of her tragedies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.