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Who would send anyone thither when our queen was in the convent of Engaddi?" "The Council of the Crusade sent him, my lord," the baron answered, "but for what purpose he declined to account to me." "Well, it shall be looked into," said Richard. "So this envoy met with a wandering physician at Engaddi, ha!"
I wot well it is said abroad that we of the line of Anjou resent offence against our forest-laws as highly as we would do treason against our crown. To brave and worthy men, however, we could pardon either misdemeanour. But enough of this. I desire to know of you, Sir Knight, wherefore, and by whose authority, you took this recent journey to the wilderness of the Dead Sea and Engaddi?"
De Vaux turned to obey the King's mandate, shrugging his shoulders at the same time, the bluntness of his nature being unable to conceal that its tenor went against his judgment. But the hermit of Engaddi stepped forward, and assumed the air of one charged with higher commands than those of a mere earthly potentate.
Keyne? suggested the malicious brother. 'No, at the source of the Scamander, said Percy. It served us in good stead when we got into the desert of Engaddi. 'Oh! was that when the robbers broke into John's tent? exclaimed Violet. 'Surely you had some better weapon?
"I have been absent on a pilgrimage, in the course of which," replied Sir Kenneth "I had a message to discharge towards the holy hermit of Engaddi." "May I not be entrusted with it, Sir Kenneth, and with the answer of the holy man?" "It may not be, my lord," answered the Scot. "I am of the secret council of England," said the Englishman haughtily.
It is not yet over but," she added, bursting into a vehement flood of weeping, in which personal apprehensions had some share, "it will soon, unless some course be taken." "I will vow a golden candlestick to the Holy Sepulchre, a shrine of silver to our Lady of Engaddi, a pall, worth one hundred byzants, to Saint Thomas of Orthez," said the Queen in extremity.
He designated himself "ATTILA, Descendant of the Great Nimrod. Nurtured in Engaddi. By the grace of God, King of the Huns, the Goths, the Danes, and the Medes. The Dread of the World."
Expecting the approach of his princely guests, the Soldan, imbued, as most were, with the superstitions of his time, paused over a horoscope and corresponding scroll, which had been sent to him by the hermit of Engaddi when he departed from the camp.
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