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Raimbaut was bitterly perturbed, though he did not know for what reason, as Makrisi led him through dark corridors to the dull-gleaming arras of Prince Guillaume's apartments. In this corridor was an iron lamp swung from the ceiling, and now, as this lamp swayed slightly and burned low, the tiny flame leaped clear of the wick and was extinguished, and darkness rose about them.
And now that the honor and the danger no longer floated vaguely over four heads, but had fixed on one, a sudden silence and solemnity took the place of eager voices. It was first broken by Private Dard saying, with foolish triumph, "And I held the hat for you, colonel." "Ah, Raynal!" said General Raimbaut, sorrowfully, "it was not worth while to come from Egypt for this."
In his heart he despised these old fogies, compounds of timidity and rashness. "So, how many men in all, colonel?" asked General Raimbaut. "The fewer the better," replied the other solemnly, "since" and then discipline tied his tongue. "I understand you," said the old man. "Shall we say eight hundred men?" "I should prefer three hundred.
On leaving Narbonne, he visited Raimbaut at Orange and afterwards travelled to Spain and Toulouse, finally entering a monastery where he ended his life. Auvergne produced a far more important troubadour in the person of Peire d'Auvergne, whose work extended from about 1158 to 1180; he was thus more or less contemporary with Guiraut de Bornelh and Bernart de Ventadour.
The combatants remain unchanged, the question at issue is the same, the tragedy has continuity. And even so, from the time of Sire Raimbaut to that of John Charteris has a special temperament heart-hungrily confronted an ageless problem: at what cost now, in this fleet hour of my vigor, may one write perfectly of beautiful happenings?
The curtains were ripped from their hangings as he spoke, and behind him the candlelight was reflected by the armor of many followers. Then de Vernoil perceived Raimbaut de Vaquieras, and the spruce little man bowed ceremoniously. All were still.
Raimbaut fell in love with Beatrice, the sister of the marquis, an intimacy which proceeded upon the regular lines of courtly love. He soon found an opportunity of showing his devotion to the marquis.
The poem is nothing but a jeu d'esprit based upon the contrast between troubadour sentiments and the honest but unpoetical views of the middle class; it is interesting to philologists as containing one of the earliest known specimens of Italian dialect. An example of the Tuscan dialect is also found in the descort by Raimbaut.
The freebooter growled curses as he went. On a sudden he whistled, like a person considering, and he began to chuckle. Raimbaut said, more lately: "Zoraida left no wholesome legacy in you, Makrisi."
Pardieu, I do not even doubt, who know she is of matchless worth." "Wherein have I done wrong, Raimbaut?" She came to him with fluttering hands. "Why, but look you, the man had laid an ambuscade in the marsh and he meant to kill you there to-night as you rode for Vaquieras.
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