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NO more moving and delightful story was ever written or invented than the history Of this saint and Queen. She was the daughter Of Edward, called the Outlaw, and Of his wife a princess Of Hungary, of the race which afterwards produced St. Elizabeth: and the sister Of Edgar Atheling, the feeble but rightful heir Of the Saxon line, and conse quently Of the English throne. The family, however, was more foreign than English, having been brought up at the Court Of their grandfather, the King Of Hungary, one Of the most pious and one of the richest Courts in Christendom; and it was not unnatural that when convinced Of the fact that the most legitimate Of aspirants had no chance against the force Of William, they should prefer to return to the country Of their education and birth. It was no doubt a somewhat forlorn party that set out upon this journey, for to lose a throne is seldom a misfortune accepted with equanimity, and several Of the beaten and despondent Saxons had joined the royal exiles. Their voyage, however, was an unprosperous one, and after much beating about by winds and storms they were at last driven up the Firth Of Forth, where their ship found shelter in the little bay at the narrowing Of the Firth, which has since borne the name Of St. Margaret's Hope.
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