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night she'll hae but three: There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton, And Mary Carmichael, and me. [Asterism] One of Whyte Melville's novels is called _The Queen's Marys_. =Mary Anne=, a slang name for the guillotine; also called _L'abbaye de monte-[`a]-regret_ ("the mountain of mournful ascent"). (See MARIANNE.) _Mary Anne_, a generic name for a secret republican society in France. [TN-5]See MARIANNE.)--B. Disraeli, _Lothair_. Mary Anne was the red-name for the republic years ago, and there always was a sort of myth that these secret societies had been founded by a woman. The Mary-Anne associations, which are essentially republic, are scattered about all the provinces of France.--_Lothair._ =Mary Graham=, an orphan adopted by old Martin Chuzzlewit. She eventually married Martin Chuzzlewit, the grandson, and hero of the tale. =Mary Scudder.= Blue-eyed daughter of a "capable" New England housewife. From childhood she has loved her cousin. Her mother objects on the ground that James is "unregenerate," and brings Mary to accept Dr. Hopkins, her pastor. The doctor, upon discovering the truth, resigns his betrothed to the younger lover.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _The Minister's Wooing_ (1862). =Mary Stuart=, an historical tragedy by J. Haynes (1840). The subject is the death of David Rizzio. [Asterism] Schiller has taken Mary Stuart for the subject of a tragedy. P. Lebrun turned the German drama into a French play. Sir W. Scott, in _The Abbot_, has taken for his subject the flight of Mary to England. =Mary Tudor.= Victor Hugo has a tragedy so called (1833), and Tennyson, in 1878, issued a play entitled _Queen Mary_, an epitome of the reign of the Tudor Mary. =Mary and Byron.= The "Mary" of Lord Byron was Miss Chaworth. Both were under the guardianship of Mr. White. Miss Chaworth married John Musters, and Lord Byron married Miss Milbanke; both equally unfortunate. Lord Byron, in _The Dream_, refers to his love-affair with Mary Chaworth. =Mary in Heaven= (_To_) and _Highland Mary_, lyrics addressed by Robert Burns to Mary Campbell, between whom and the poet there existed a strong attachment previous to the latter's departure from Ayrshire to Nithsdale. _Mary Morison_, a youthful effusion, was written to the object of a prior passion. The lines in the latter Those smiles and glances let me see, That make the miser's treasure poor, resembles tho
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