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Before the dwarf could answer, Nature, more merciful than his conscience, did that for Francisco which he refused to do for himself, for of a sudden he swooned. His face turned ashen and slowly he began to sink backwards, so that he would have fallen had not Nam, who saw that he had fainted with fear, caught him by the shoulders and held him upright. "The dawn is white!
'It's the priest you must get to do this for you to-morrow, says I. And Brian just held up the ring, to show me all was ready on his part, but could not speak. 'Then there's no America between us any more! said Grace, low to me, and her heart was on her lips; but the colour came and went, and I was afeard she'd have swooned again, but not for sorrow, so I carried her off.
I entered the bed-chamber with the notary, followed by the Sbirri, when the lady awakening at the noise, and seeing the bed surrounded by armed men, screamed out aloud and continued screaming as out of her senses, till one of the Sbirri, provoked at the noise gave her a blow on the forehead that made the blood flow, and she swooned away.
Such was her agitation at this honour that she immediately swooned; but, reviving, summoned all the attendants and gave orders for a banquet and musicians. Lanterns painted with pheasants and exquisite landscapes were hung on all the pavilions.
The clerk went to her, but he could not carry her out; she lay rigid as one who had been dead a long while and she muttered, "He is coming to put the gold crown on my head." The clerk moved away, and she swooned again. Her return to her ordinary perceptions was slow and painful.
"Bad servant and felon traitor," he cried, "you should pay dearly for your speech, if I might leave my lady." Eliduc held his friend fast in his arms, and cherished her as well as he was able. When the lady heard that her knight was already wedded in his own realm, she swooned where she lay. Her face became pale and discoloured; she neither breathed nor sighed, nor could any bring her any comfort.
He raised the fellow's limp head, and we saw that the sword had passed just over his shoulder, piercing the linen, not the flesh. He had swooned from sheer terror, being in truth not so much as scratched. Gervais turned to his cousin. "I never meant that foul trick. It was no thought of mine. I would have turned the blade if I could. I will kill Pontou now, if you say the word."
'That may be very true, said Hillel. 'At the same time, for my part, I have always thought that the body should be maintained as well as the spirit. 'Withdraw from the side of the couch, said Issachar, the son of Selim, to his companions. 'My lord and friend has swooned. Gradually the tide of life returned to Besso, gradually the heart beat, the hand grew warm.
'For the nuns feared ye might not win through the poison of your wound which the dragon knight did give you. 'Twas I who had followed you, lord, since that you did leave the hold of the witches, and when you swooned I brought you here, to the convent of the White Nuns. And now that I know ye live, I go to your lady mother to tell her the good news, for she is weary to know tidings of you.
When ten minutes had passed, his bruised knees became so painful that his whole being slowly swooned into ecstasy, in which he pictured himself as a mighty conqueror, the master of an immense empire, flinging down his crown, breaking his sceptre, trampling under foot unheard-of wealth, chests of gold, floods of jewels, and rich stuffs embroidered with precious stones, before going to bury himself in some Thebais, clothed in rough drugget that rasped his back.
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