Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
"Doubtless in the beginning because I was the agent of Sinan, charged to betray such knights as you are into his hands, and afterwards because my heart was filled with pity and love for the lady Rosamund." Again the lightning flashed, and this time that strange look had spread from Masouda's face to the face of Godwin.
All the company drank also, and shouted till the hall rang, for her loveliness as she stood thus in the fierce light of the torches, aflame as these men were with the vision-breeding wine of Al-je-bal, moved them to madness. "Queen! Queen!" they shouted. "Queen of our Master and of us all!" Sinan heard and smiled.
Gazing from the heights at Il Borgo, the fortress on the opposite side of the harbour where the Knights then dwelt, Sinan demanded of Dragut, "If that," pointing to the fortress, "was the place which he had told the Sultan could easily be taken?" Dragut, whom no peril ever daunted, coolly replied: "Certainly, no eagle ever built his nest on a rock more easy of access."
They look to deceive and cut you down, kill Salah-ed-din, and escape by the further door. Can you hold your own awhile against eight men, think you?" "We have done so before and will try," answered Wulf. "But how shall we know that they are not Mameluks?" "Thus they will wish to pass the door, and you will say, 'Nay, sons of Sinan, whereon they will spring on you to kill you.
Instantly guards thrust themselves between them, and Sinan asked through Masouda: "Why do you dare to strike this Frank in my presence?" "Because, lord," answered Wulf, "he is a rogue who has brought all these troubles on our house. I challenge him to meet me in battle to the death." "And I also," said Godwin. "I am ready," shouted Lozelle, stung to fury by the blow.
Sinan stroked his fine beard. 'I can dispose of the business of Montferrat in a few lines, he said, considering. 'More, I can reach the Melek and assure him of comfort. What I cannot do so easily, though I admit no failure, mind, is to induce his enemies at home to allow of a ransom. 'I can do that, said Jehane, 'if you will do the rest. The Old Man patted her cheek.
That is why, Lozelle being afraid to be near him, I set the spy Nicholas, who was a bold fellow, as a watch over him, and two soldiers outside the tent, while Lozelle and I watched the lady." "Let those soldiers be brought," said Sinan, "and tell their story." They were brought and stood by their captain, but they had no story to tell.
Am I, who have done you so much service, to be butchered for your pleasure by the lovers of that woman, whom you would honour with the name of wife?" Sinan heard, and stared at him with dull, angry eyes. "Ay, you may stare," went on the maddened Lozelle, "but it is true they are her lovers, not her brothers. Would men take so much pains for a sister's sake, think you?
Moreover, you have one with you," and he pointed to Rosamund, "who is dear to Salah-ed-din, whom, therefore, my master desires as a hostage." "How knew you that?" said Hassan, to gain time while his men formed up. "How does the lord Sinan know all things?" was the answer; "Come, yield, and perhaps he will show you mercy."
"Our servant, the emir Hassan, has sent us tidings of your rescue from the power of the accursed lord of the Mountain, Sinan, and that you are now safe in our city of Emesa, guarded by many thousands of our soldiers, and with you a woman named Masouda, and your kinsmen, the two Frankish knights, by whose skill in arms and courage you were saved.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking