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An insignificant Saracen expedition entered the Tiber and appeared before the walls of the city. Too weak to force an entrance, it insulted and plundered the precincts, sacrilegiously violating the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul. Had the city itself been sacked, the moral effect could not have been greater. From the church of St. Peter its altar of silver was torn away and sent to Africa St.
The fact that this hero throughout all his great public career so full of all kinds of excitement and action enough, one would say, to absorb the energies of a mind of any ordinary human capacity that this soldier whose name had become, on the Spanish coasts, what the name of 'Coeur de Lion' was in the Saracen nursery, that this foreign adventurer who had a fleet of twenty-three ships sailing at one time on his errands this legislator, for he sat in Parliament as representative of his native shire this magnificent courtier, who had raised himself, without any vantage-ground at all, from a position wholly obscure, by his personal achievements and merits, to a place in the social ranks so exalted; to a place in the state so near that which was chief and absolute the fact that this many-sided man of deeds, was all the time a literary man, not a scholar merely, but himself an Originator, a Teacher, the Founder of a School this is the explanatory point in this history this is the point in it which throws light on all the rest of it, and imparts to it its true dignity.
There was nothing to do but keep his own great broadsword moving, swinging like some gigantic metronome as he hacked down the Moslem foes. And then, suddenly, he found himself surrounded by the Saracens! He was isolated and alone, cut off from the rest of the Christian forces! He glanced quickly around as he slashed another Saracen from pate to breastbone. Where was Sir Gaeton?
Moreover, he prayed them all to compose their differences and prepare for that awful struggle, lest in the end the Cross of their Master should be trampled under foot of the Saracen, His soldiers slain, His fanes desecrated, and His people slaughtered or driven into the sea words of warning that were received in heavy silence. "Four full days have gone by.
"And thou art wise, Ilderim," said the Scot "wise though a Saracen, and generous though an infidel. I have witnessed that thou art both. Take, then, the guidance of this matter; and so thou ask nothing of me contrary to my loyalty and my Christian faith, I, will obey thee punctually. Do what thou hast said, and take my life when it is accomplished." "Listen thou to me, then," said the Saracen.
Here he was at first subjected to the most rigorous captivity, but Carahue and Sadon insisted so vehemently on his release, threatening to turn their arms against their own party if it was not granted, while Dannemont as eagerly opposed the measure, that Corsuble, the Saracen commander, consented to a middle course, and allowed Ogier the freedom of his camp, upon his promise not to leave it without permission.
"I had rather the trouble which you design for yourself were in revenge of some other more important person than of me, noble Emir," replied the Knight; "but my vow is recorded in heaven, for good or for evil, and I must be indebted to you for pointing me out the way to my resting-place for this evening." "That," said the Saracen, "must be under the black covering of my father's tent."
"Is there no passage inside the door, then?" asked Eustacia as they stood within the porch. "No," said the lad who played the Saracen. "The door opens right upon the front sitting-room, where the spree's going on." "So that we cannot open the door without stopping the dance." "That's it. Here we must bide till they have done, for they always bolt the back door after dark."
The Royal Palace is situated on the site of the Saracen Al Kasr, and within a short tramway drive of the Hotel de France.
Once in safety, Saracen stopped of his own accord, looking around as though, now the hurry was over, he would like to know what sort of unaccustomed load he had been carrying. "Right we are!" said the young man cheerily. "Now I wonder if you can slide down." Still speechless, Frances did so.
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