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The citizens were occupying themselves as usual; and some of the ladies had gone to walk in the gardens outside the gate, when suddenly a body of Saracens, who had marched from Joppa, presented themselves before the walls, and sent to inform the constable that if he did not give them fifty thousand bezants by way of tribute, they would destroy the gardens.
There was a great hole in the rear wall of the cellar, and among the ruins lay shining heaps of gold not bezants or zecchins, but wedges and bars of a strange reddish hue. They touched it warily; it was not red-hot. They filled their pouches, and others came and did likewise.
Demedes asked. "Yes." "You believe her the daughter of the Prince of India?" "Yes." "Then you do not know her." The Greek laughed insolently. "The best of us, and the oldest can be at times as much obliged by information as by a present of bezants. The Academy sends you its compliments.
Does it suit him to reply now to the proposal of marriage, keeping the matter of the stipend open, he may give half relief and still hold the Emperor, who stands more in need of bezants than of a consort." "Prince," said Mahommed, quickly, "as you go out send my secretary in." "Despatch a messenger for the ambassador of my brother of Constantinople. I will see him immediately."
The infidel's first resolution was to put the valiant Constable to the most dreadful death which his tormentors could devise. But fame told him that Hugo de Lacy was a man of great power and wealth; and he has demanded a ransom of ten thousand bezants of gold.
Master Headley would not trust one of the boys with the good silver coins that had been paid as the price of the sword French crowns and Milanese ducats, with a few Venetian gold bezants but he bade them go as guards to Tibble, for it was always a perilous thing to carry a sum of money through the London streets. Tibble was not an unwilling messenger.
In short, but one property in Byzantium was respected that of the Emperor. By noon the excitement had crossed to Galata, and was at high tide in the Isles of the Princes. Such power was there in the offer of bezants in gold six thousand for the girl, five thousand for one of her captors singly, a fortune to stir the cupidity of a Duke together, enough to enlist a King in the work.
"The things were brought by the King's men, and one of the King's knights came also with them, and delivered a very courteous message, and a purse of Greek bezants, very heavy." Gilbert began to walk up and down, in hesitation. He was very poor, but if the gifts were from the Queen, he was resolved not to keep them.
In truth, I hardly think there will be much difficulty; for this caliph is a miser a mean, detestable miser and would sell anything for bezants even his soul, if he had not already pawned it to Satan, through his brokers Mahound and Termagaunt. And, too much occupied with his dream of seizing Bagdad, and carving out a kingdom with his sword, the knight relapsed into silence, and scarcely moved till evening fell.
Piran's white cross on a black ground, the first banner of Cornwall, bore aloft the same symbol in days when the present emblem, with its fifteen bezants and its motto, "One and All," was not dimly dreamed of. These ancient crosses now rose like gray sentinels on the gray life of Joan Tregenza.
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