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Then the King looked all around right grimly, and, last of all, his glance came back and rested again upon Sir Richard of the Lea. "How is this, Sir Richard?" said he sternly. "How darest thou step between me and these fellows? And how darest thou offer thy knightly Castle of the Lea for a refuge to them? Wilt thou make it a hiding place for the most renowned outlaws in England?"
"Impertinent stranger!" cried Achelous, turning toward the hero, while his voice rose till it sounded like the thunder of distant cataracts, and his green garment changed to the blackness of night, "impertinent stranger! how darest thou claim this maiden, thou who hast mortal blood in thy veins! Behold me, the god Achelous, the powerful King of the Waters!
She cast her languishing eyes upon me, and answered mournfully, I do not know him; I never saw him till this moment. What, said the genie, he is the cause of thy being in the condition thou art justly in; and yet darest thou say thou dost not know him? If I do not know him, said the princess, would you have me to make a lie on purpose to ruin him?
Idly the Wanderer wondered who this might be, and, as he wondered, the man urged the camel towards the chariot, and, halting before it cried "Hold!" in a loud voice. "Who art thou?" cried the captain of the chariot, "who darest cry 'hold' to the host of Pharaoh?" "I am one who have tidings of the barbarians," the man made answer from the camel. The Wanderer looked on him.
Darest thou, boy, set thy judgment against the king's? cried the marquis. 'Sir Rowland thou art, and SIR ROWLAND will the archangel cry when he calls thee from thy last sleep. 'To my endless disgrace, added Scudamore. 'What! hast not done thy duty? 'I tried, but I failed, my lord. 'The best as often fail as the worst, rejoined his lordship. 'I mean not merely that I failed of the end.
'Thou art but a well-known carpenter's son, and dost thou teach us! Darest thou imply a divine preference for Capernaum over Nazareth? In bad odour with the rest of their countrymen, they were the prouder of themselves. The whole synagogue, observe, rose in a fury. Such a fellow a prophet!
Half hypnotized by the irate swarthy face, Esther made no resistance while Malka rifled her pocket less dexterously than the first operator. Malka counted it out. "Seventeen and sixpence," she announced in terrible tones. "How darest thou take all this money from strangers, and perfect strangers? Do my children think to shame me before my own relative?"
A rabbi exclaimed: "This must not be thou darest not do this!" but his voice passed unheeded in the tumult. The earthenware vessels fell crashing to the ground, the money was scattered over the floor. Some of the dismayed merchants crying, "My money, oh! my money," scrambled for the glittering coins. Others stared in fury at the unceremonious intruder.
How darest thou talk thus to me? as though yon accursed heretic of a Protestant was a member of the Church of Christ. Thou knowest that there is but one fold under one shepherd, and he the Pope of Rome. A plague upon those accursed ones who have perverted the true faith and led a whole nation astray! But they shall not lead my son after them; Nicholas Trevlyn will look well to that!"
It is the 'gate' of the desert; and the tutelar genii have placed the terrific dunes as a hieroglyphic warning to those who rashly approach. They seem to say, 'here begins the empire of Sterility and Death; enter if thou darest! Doubtless the Arab tales had some influence on our minds, increasing the well-grounded fears inspired by the natural features of these arid wastes.
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