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Tancred had no experience of such self-revelations; such a jumble of sublime aspirations and equivocal conduct; such a total disregard of means, such complicated plots, such a fertility of perplexed and tenebrous intrigue! The animated manner and the picturesque phrase, too, in which all this was communicated, heightened the interest and effect.
It will be rather a family sort of collection, and not so amusing this year, I am afraid. Em and Mary, Tristram and his new bride, and Mr. Markrute, the uncle and the rest as I told you." "Why, my dear child, it sounds delightful! I shall long to meet the new Lady Tancred! Tristram and I are such dear friends, poor darling boy! I must write and tell him how delighted I am with the news.
Besides, he made their sittings so delightful and flirted with them with such absolute discretion always. The year that Hugo Tancred met Fay was a particularly good year, and Anthony had bought a touring-car, and they all went up to Scotland in it. The girls were always well dressed and went out a good deal. Young as she was, Jan was already an excellent manager and a pleasant hostess.
But if I think it would be wiser for France and England together to hold Syria and Palestine together rather than separately, that only completes and clinches the conclusion that has haunted me, with almost uncanny recurrence, since I first saw Jerusalem sitting on the hill like a turreted town in England or in France; and for one moment the dark dome of it was again the Templum Domini, and the tower on it was the Tower of Tancred.
Richard did in the end become involved in difficulties with Philip and with the French troops, but the most serious affair which occupied his attention was a very extraordinary quarrel which he instigated between himself and the king of the country. The name of this king was Tancred.
'She has fled with him who was false to us all, said Astarte, 'for it was the Emir of the Lebanon who long ago told me that you were affianced to the daughter of Besso, and who warned me against joining in any enterprise which was only to place upon the throne of Syria one whom the laws of your own country would never recognise as your wife. 'Intriguer! said Tancred.
'It is more simple than you imagine, and before you return to England to take your seat in your Parliament, I should be very happy to have some conversation with you. I think I could tell you some things and he gave a glance of diplomatic mystery. Tancred bowed.
The most memorable of these was a visit to Lord and Lady Salisbury at Hatfield, where they again met Lord Beaconsfield, who, strange to say, though he had much in common with the Burtons notably a love of the East and mysticism, and had a liking for them, and for Isabel especially, with whom he was wont to discuss her favourite Tancred, his book never did anything for them, though he must have known better than most men how Burton was thrown away at a place like Trieste.
'You Franks love Bethany? 'Naturally; a place to us most dear and interesting. 'Pray, are you of those Franks who worship a Jewess; or of those other who revile her, break her images, and blaspheme her pictures? 'I venerate, though I do not adore, the mother of God, said Tancred, with emotion. 'Ah! the mother of Jesus! said his companion. 'He is your God. He lived much in this village.
The lady, seating herself on the brink of the fountain, and motioning at the same time with her hand to Tancred not to rise, replied, 'We are so near the desert that you must not doubt our hospitality. 'I was tempted by the first sight of a palm tree to a step too bold; and then sitting by this fountain, I know not how it was 'You yielded to our Syrian sun, said the lady.
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