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He shot a keen glance at Tancred as he passed by, and then throwing his tube to his attendant, he bounded on. In the meantime, we must not forget the lady of Bethany after she so suddenly disappeared from the kiosk.
Many reflections passed swiftly through his mind, some urging him forward, others withholding; but he concluded with stepping right through the fire. It did not resist him: he did not feel it. The fire vanished; and, in its stead, there poured down a storm of hail and rain, black as midnight. This vanished also. Tancred stood amazed for an instant, and then passed on.
'He is the man to get hold of, but that is so difficult now. He never goes anywhere. Let me see, this is Monday; to-morrow is post-day, and I dine with him alone in the City. Well, you shall hear from me on Wednesday morning early, about everything; but I would not write to the colonel and his friends just yet. Tancred Rescues a Lady in Distress THAT is most striking in London is its vastness.
'It must be so, said Tancred; 'for who can believe that a country once sanctified by the Divine Presence can ever be as other lands? Some celestial quality, distinguishing it from all other climes, must for ever linger about it. I would ask those mountains, that were reached by angels, why they no longer receive heavenly visitants.
'The year is too old, said Eva, not very composed. 'They should be midsummer nights, said Tancred, 'as on my first visit here; that hour thrice blessed! 'We know not what is blessed in this world, said Eva, mournfully. 'I feel I do, murmured Tancred; and he also seated himself on the margin of the fountain.
The air, yet fervid, was freshened by a slight breeze that came over the wilderness from the Jordan, and the big round stars that were already floating in the skies were the brilliant heralds of the splendour of a Syrian night. The beauteous hour and the sacred scene were alike in unison with the heart of Tancred, softened and serious.
He made a splendid speech, telling them that he had come back to live among them and had brought them a beautiful new Lady and here he turned to her a moment and took and kissed her hand and how he would always think of all their interests in every way; and that he looked upon them as his dear old friends; and that he and Lady Tancred would always endeavor to promote their welfare, as long as the radicals here he laughed, for they were all true blue to a man would let them!
She received them, sitting on her divan, clothed in a purple robe, and shrouded in a long veil. This she took off when Tancred came towards her, and he marvelled at the strangeness of her beauty. There was nothing oriental about her. She was a Greek girl of the ancient type, with violet eyes, fair cheeks, and dark hair. "Prince," she said, "we are a people who wish neither to see nor to be seen.
With Bohemond, and second in command in the army, came Tancred, the favorite hero of all the historians of the crusade, so young, so valiant, so enthusiastic. There was not among them all, says Tasso, a greater warrior, nor any one of more courteous behavior, of fairer countenance, or of loftier and more intrepid heart. The last army was led by the haughty and resolute Count Raimond of Toulouse.
It was, of course, a confounded bore that Hugo Tancred should have turned up just now, but Peter saw no reason for staying away for ever on that account.
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