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He clasped his hands in mute agony. For a brief moment his dark eye seeming to invite His wrath he dared to arraign the mercy of God, who had taken what he had made. It was but for a moment he thus thought. He had watched that light of life, until its existence was almost identified with his own. He had seen it flicker had viewed it reillumed blaze with increased brilliancy fade glimmer and fade.
A circumstance, as unforeseen as it was disastrous, blasted this fair prospect, and reillumed, for the last time, the fervour and fury of the Crusades. Gengis Khan and his successors had swept over Asia like a tropical storm, overturning in their progress the landmarks of ages.