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Updated: June 5, 2025
For this reason I depart at once; see that the ransom be dispatched to my pavilion ere the sun shall have set behind the western hills." With these words the grand vizier bowed haughtily to the duke, and quitted the council chamber. Manuel d'Orsini followed, supporting Isaachar ben Solomon; and, on reaching the court, one of Ibrahim's slaves took the Jew up behind him on his steed.
"Surely, my lord," said the countess, vainly endeavoring to subdue the writhings of torture which this language excited, "surely the Marquis d'Orsini is wronged by the breath of scandal?"
The dark hints which Manuel d'Orsini had dropped relative to the possibility of the count's discovering the affair of the diamonds, and the certain vengeance that would ensue, flashed to the mind of Isaachar ben Solomon; and he stood, as it were, paralyzed at the window, gazing with the vacancy of despair upon the armed men, on whose steel morions and pikes the morning sunbeams now fell in radiant glory.
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