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"Ha!" cried Almamen, for it was indeed the Israelite; "by thy black charger, and the tone of thy haughty voice, I know the hero of Granada. Rather, Muza Ben Abil Gazan, why art thou absent from the last hold of the Moorish empire?" "Dost thou pretend to read the future, and art thou blind to the present? Granada has capitulated to the Spaniard.
The casements of Leila's chamber were peculiarly adapted to command a safe nor insufficient view of the progress of the enemy; and, with a beating heart and flushing cheek, the Jewish maiden, deaf to the voices around her, imagined she could already descry amidst the horsemen the lion port and snowy garments of Muza Ben Abil Gazan. What a situation was hers!
Farewell! yet stay thou art assured that Muza Ben Abil Gazan is in the prisons of the Moor?" "Yes." "Blessed be the Virgin!" "Thou hast heard our conference, Father Tomas?" said the king, anxiously, when the Hebrew had withdrawn. "I have, son." "Did thy veins freeze with horror?" "Only when my son signed the scroll. It seemed to me then that I saw the cloven foot of the tempter."
"Dost thou, in truth, suspect the faith of Muza Ben Abil Gazan?" said the Moorish prince, in a tone of surprise and sorrow. "Unhappy king! I deemed that my services, and not my defection, made my crime." "Why do my people hate me? why do my armies menace?" said Boabdil, evasively; "why should a subject possess that allegiance which a king cannot obtain?"
Arouse thee, then, O heart within me! many and deep emotions of sorrow or of joy are yet left to break the monotony of existence." He paused; and, at the distance, his eyes fell upon the lonely minarets of the distant and deserted palace of Muza Ben Abil Gazan.
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