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Yet, in view of the fact that deductions as to what befell these lovers afterward can at best result in free-handed theorising, it seems more profitable in this place to speak very briefly of the fragmentary Roman de Lusignan, since the history of Melicent and Perion as set forth in this book makes no pretensions to be more than a rendering into English of this manuscript, with slight additions from the earliest known printed version of 1546.
He shook his head slowly in response. "Our paragon might not be found in the House of Lusignan, perchance. But surely he would not be a Louis of Savoy nor a Ferdinand of Naples no more than a Carlotta. Nor any Cyprian noble who hath eyes upon the Crown." "Not this, also!" she cried, startled; "not this!" "So rumor hath it; but none is strong enough. It frets me not.
The reader will recollect, perhaps, that it has already been stated that a very renowned Crusader, named Godfrey of Bouillon, had penetrated, about a hundred years before this time, into the interior of the Holy Land, at the head of a large army, and there had taken possession of Jerusalem; that the earls, and barons, and other prominent knights in his army had chosen him king of the city, and fixed the crown and the royal title upon him and his descendants forever; that when Jerusalem was itself, after a time, lost, the title still remained in Godfrey's family, and that it descended to a princess named Sibylla; that a knight named Guy of Lusignan married Sibylla, and then claimed the title of King of Jerusalem in the right of his wife; that, in process of time, Sibylla died, and then one party claimed that the rights of her husband, Guy of Lusignan, ceased, since he held them only through his wife, and that thenceforward the title and the crown vested in Isabella, her sister, who was the next heir; that Isabella, however, was married to a man who was too feeble and timid to assert his claims; that, consequently, a more bold and unscrupulous knight, named Conrad of Montferrat, seized her and carried her off, and afterward procured a divorce for her from her former husband, and married her himself; and that then a great quarrel arose between Guy of Lusignan, the husband of Sibylla, and Conrad of Montferrat, the husband of Isabella.
I should die of shame." She added, "Oh, pray, from this hour, never mention his name to me." And then she had another cry. Mr. Lusignan was a sensible man: he dropped the subject for the present; but he made up his mind to one thing that he would never part with Dr. Staines as a physician. Next day Rosa kept her own room until dinner-time, and was as unhappy as she deserved to be.
"No," said Nana, "I'm going to put ten louis on Lusignan and five on Boum." La Faloise burst forth at once: "But, my dear girl, Boum's all rot! Don't choose him! Gasc himself is chucking up backing his own horse. And your Lusignan never! Why, it's all humbug! By Lamb and Princess just think! By Lamb and Princess no, by Jove! All too short in the legs!" He was choking.
Lusignan. "There," said he, "see on what a straw her mind turns. So, but for that, you would have done the right thing, and married the earl?" "I dare say I should at the time to stop his crying." And with this listless remark she quietly took up her sewing again. The sagacious Philip looked at her gravely.
'I am, replied I. 'Will you come and see if it is all right? said he. 'In a minute, said I. Stepped into my bedroom, and loaded my six-shooter." "What is that?" said Lusignan. "A revolver with six barrels: by the by, the very same I killed the lion with. Ugh! I never think of that scene without feeling a little quiver; and my nerves are pretty good, too.
I learned the fact from an English prisoner whom our Indians brought in from Fort Lydius," replied the Count de Lusignan. "Well, the more of them the merrier," laughed La Corne St. Luc. "The bigger the prize, the richer they who take it. The treasure-chests of the English will make up for the beggarly packs of the New Englanders.
Accordingly, another knight, named Conrad of Montferrat, conceived the idea of taking his place. He contrived to seize and bear away the Lady Isabella, and afterward to procure a divorce for her from her husband, and then, finally, he married her himself. He now claimed to be King of Jerusalem in right of Isabella, while Guy of Lusignan maintained that his right to the crown still continued.
My closet, through yonder door, is thy waiting-room. Ask for, and send hither, Lusignan of Lyons; he is my chief scribe, and will see to thy comforts, and instruct thee in thy business." Angelo withdrew Montreal's eye followed him. "A strange likeness!" said he, musingly and sadly; "my heart leaps to that boy!"
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