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"I would this knife were at his false throat!" growled Elias, clutching his poniard with his long bony fingers. "No chance of that," muttered Ximen; "he will return no more to Granada. "This is a strange and fearful vault," said Isaac, quaffing a large goblet of the hot wine of the Vega; "here might the Witch of Endor have raised the dead. Yon door whither doth it lead?"
"Old man," said he, concluding the potation with a deep-drawn sigh, "fill to thyself-drink till thy veins feel young." Ximen obeyed the mandate but imperfectly; the wine just touched his lips, and the goblet was put aside. "Ximen," resumed the Israelite, "how many of our race have been butchered by the avarice of the Moorish kings since first thou didst set foot within the city?"
It was late, one evening, when Ximen was making his usual round through the chambers of Almamen's house. As he glanced around at the various articles of wealth and luxury, he ever and anon burst into a low, fitful chuckle, rubbed his lean hands, and mumbled out, "If my master should die! if my master should die!"
And the Cid was well pleased hearing them say this. V. While they were thus saying, word was brought to the Cid that there was a messenger from King Bucar at the gate of the town, who would fain speak with him. The name of this Moor was Ximen de Algezira, and the Cid gave order that he should be admitted.
It is this mean, and miserable, and loathsome leprosy of avarice, that gnaws away from our whole race the heart, the soul, nay the very form, of man! Ximen prudently forbore an answer to enthusiasm which he neither shared nor understood; but, after a brief silence, turned back the stream of the conversation.
"Trusty and well-beloved Ximen," cried one, a wealthy and usurious merchant, with a twinkling and humid eye, and a sleek and unctuous aspect, which did not, however, suffice to disguise something fierce and crafty in his low brow and pinched lips "trusty and well-beloved Ximen," said this Jew "truly thou hast served us well, in yielding to thy persecuted brethren this secret shelter.
Ximen, I have spoken to thee as the foolish speak; thou mayest betray me to thy lord; but from what I have learned of thee from our brethren, I have poured my heart into thy bosom without fear. Wilt thou betray Israel, or assist us to smite the traitor?" Ximen mused for a moment, and his meditation conjured up the treasures of his master.
On descending a broad flight of stairs from the apartment, the Hebrew encountered an old man, habited in loose garments of silk and fur, upon whose withered and wrinkled face life seemed scarcely to struggle against the advance of death so haggard, wan, and corpse-like was its aspect. "Ximen," said the Israelite, "trusty and beloved servant, follow me to the cavern."
It was the bond which unites all the persecuted: and Ximen loved them, because he could not envy their happiness. The power the knowledge the lofty, though wild designs of his master, stung and humbled him he secretly hated, because he could not compassionate or contemn him.
Ximen sought me this day: 'Maiden, said he, 'men's footsteps have been tracked within the gardens; if your sire know this, you will have looked your last on Granada. Learn, he added, in a softer voice, as he saw me tremble, 'that permission were easier given to thee to wed the wild tiger than to mate with the loftiest noble of Morisca! Beware! He spoke, and left me.
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