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With a swift movement of his arm he struck a golden dish from the table to the marble floor, then said, in a clear voice in French: "Brother, be not so awkward; pick up that dish and answer the lord Sinan as is your right I mean, touching the matter of Lozelle." Wulf stooped to obey, and his mind cleared which had been so near to madness.
Then it came into Godwin's mind that just before Rosamund unveiled he had seen this knight suddenly turn and walk down the terrace. The lord Sinan looked up at the sound and made a sign. Thereon two of the dais sprang to their feet and ran towards the curtain, where they spoke with the knight, who turned and came back with them, though slowly, as one who is unwilling.
"It is no will of mine, who am a helpless prisoner and by faith a Christian. If my uncle Salah-ed-din is indeed as great as I have heard, then let him show his power and deliver me, and with me these my brethren, the knights Sir Godwin and Sir Wulf." "So you speak Arabic," said Sinan. "Good; our loving converse will be easier, and for the rest well, the whims of women change.
Sinan and his Ottoman soldiers performed prodigies in the way of repairing breaches in the walls as soon as they were made; but Kheyr-ed-Din from the city watched the progress of the bombardment gloomily, as he saw and knew that the fall of the Goletta was but a matter of days.
The quantity of booty he would bring back to Constantinople might perhaps avail, he thought, to keep his head on his shoulders, after so conspicuous a failure; but Sinān preferred not to trust to the chance. To wipe out his defeat, he sailed straight for Tripoli, some sixty-four leagues away. Tripoli was the natural antidote to Malta: for Tripoli, too, belonged to the Knights of St.
Only Wulf swore in his heart that if he went by this road Sinan should go with him. Then the corpse of the false palmer was borne away to be thrown to the eagles which always hovered over that house of death, and Sinan, having reseated himself upon the cushion, began to talk again through his "mouth" Masouda, in a low, quiet voice, as though nothing had happened to anger him.
But Sinān was no Suleymān; moreover, he was in a furious rage with the whole Order. He put the garrison all save a few in chains, and carried them off to grace his triumph at Stambol. Thus did Tripoli fall once more into the hands of the Moslems, forty-one years after its conquest by the Count Don Pedro Navarro. The misfortunes of the Christians did not end here.
"Show no surprise, Wulf," muttered Godwin, who had caught a warning look in the eyes of Masouda as she took up her position behind Rosamund. Now the feast began. Slaves running to and fro, set dish after dish filled with strange and savoury meats, upon the little inlaid tables, those that were served to Sinan and his guests fashioned, all of them, of silver or of gold.
In so doing, let me observe, you will deal a mortal blow at Saladin, who loves him, and makes treaties with him to your detriment and the scandal of Christendom. 'Do you speak of the scandal of Christendom? asked Sinan, twinkling. 'Alas, I must, said the Marquess, very mournful. 'The cause is near to your heart, I see, Marquess. 'It is in it, replied the Marquess.
That men and women are free, or so some read it. Well, it or they are wrong. We are not free. Was I free when first I saw your eyes in Beirut, the eyes for which I had been watching all my life, and something came from you to me, and I the cast-off plaything of Sinan loved you, loved you, loved you to my own doom?
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