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At a certain distance behind the prince's retinue came a small division of the guard, in the midst of it Tehenna, son of the Libyan chief Musawasa. A few hundred paces from the Egyptians, at the entrance of the ravine, stood the gloomy crowd of Libyans imploring the conqueror's favor.
So English villages must have looked, muffled up in darkness, at the sound of the Conqueror's curfew. "Surely, they can't all be in bed by seven o'clock?" I said. "There doesn't seem much to stay up for," laughed Colin.
Holland had been engaged twenty years long in the conflict. England had thus far escaped it; but there was no doubt, and could be none, that her time had come. She must fight the battle of Protestantism on sea and shore, shoulder to shoulder, with the Netherlanders, or await the conqueror's foot on her own soil.
From a table near by the materials were brought, and the Emir, again upon his knees, wrote as his master dictated. The paper need not be given in full. Enough that it covered with uncommon literalness for the Conqueror's memory was prodigious the suggestions of the Prince of India already quoted respecting the duties of the agent in Constantinople.
Coolidge led the girl into her new home she looked down at her with approving eye and inwardly exclaimed, the conqueror's joy already filling her heart, "She 'll be a success! A tremendous success! The Colonel's wife can do what she pleases now!"
"And see," said Ailred, eagerly, as he drew out a leathern pouch, "we have brought with us all the gold that our poor crypts contained, for we misdoubted this day," and he poured out the glittering pieces at the Conqueror's feet.
And at last, when the day was done, the victory gained, and more French nobles lay dead on the field, as Catharine de' Medici bitterly declared, than had fallen in a battle for twenty years; when two thousand of the King's best troops had been slain, and when the bodies of Joyeuse and his brother had been laid out in the very room where the conqueror's supper, after the battle, was served, but where he refused, with a shudder, to eat, he was still as eager as before had the wretched Valois been possessed of a spark of manhood, or of intelligence to shield him and his kingdom from the common enemy.
But as no relief arrived, and the enemy's artillery incessantly battered the walls, he consulted his own safety, and that of the garrison, by an honourable capitulation, and abandoned the Bavarian officials and ecclesiastics to the conqueror's mercy. The possession of Ratisbon, enlarged the projects of the duke, and Bavaria itself now appeared too narrow a field for his bold designs.
Phoenicia, on the destruction of her distant suzerain, quietly resumed her freedom; abstained from making any act of submission to the conqueror; while, however, at the same time, she established friendly relations for commercial purposes with one of the conqueror's vassals, the prince who had been sent into Palestine to re-establish the Jews at Jerusalem.
I tell you that our own country, even, may bite the dust a conqueror's hand lay heavy upon her throat; and yet, no matter. Through the valley of fire and blood and pestilence one must pass through these to the great white land." "Amen!" David Ross cried fervently. "The gift is upon you to-day, Aaron. Amen!" The two stood together for a moment, speechless, carried away out of themselves.
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