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"The power of vengeance, Rebecca," replied the Templar, "and the prospects of ambition."
"Say not so, maiden," answered the Templar; "revenge is a feast for the gods!
"Bethink thee--""Answer me not," said the Templar, "by urging the difference of our creeds; within our secret conclaves we hold these nursery tales in derision.
"Away!" said the Templar; "thou a leader of a Free Company, and regard a woman's tears!
"It is a formal letter of defiance," answered the Templar; "but, by our Lady of Bethlehem, if it be not a foolish jest, it is the most extraordinary cartel that ever was sent across the drawbridge of a baronial castle."
"By St Luke, it is so set down," answered the Templar.
"Front-de-Boeuf has not recovered his temper since his late overthrow," said De Bracy to the Templar; "he is cowed at the very idea of a cartel, though it come but from a fool and a swineherd."
"Thou dost not fear," said the Templar, "that they can assemble in force sufficient to attempt the castle?"
have it," he added, after pausing for a moment--"Sir Templar, thou canst write as well as read, and if we can but find the writing materials of my chaplain, who died a twelvemonth since in the midst of his Christmas carousals--""So please ye," said the squire, who was still in attendance, "I think old Urfried has them somewhere in keeping, for love of the confessor.
"Then trust him not with thy purpose in words," answered the Templar.
Call the Templar yonder, and let him fight but half so well for his life as he has done for his Order--Make thou to the walls thyself with thy huge body--Let me do my poor endeavour in my own way, and I tell thee the Saxon outlaws may as well attempt to scale the clouds, as the castle of Torquilstone; or, if you will treat with the banditti, why not employ the mediation of this worthy franklin, who seems in such deep contemplation of the wine-flagon?--Here,
"'Sancta Maria!'" ejaculated Father Ambrose, "how prompt to ire are these unhallowed laymen!--But be it known to you, brave knights, that certain murderous caitiffs, casting behind them fear of God, and reverence of his church, and not regarding the bull of the holy see, 'Si quis, suadende Diabolo'---""Brother priest," said the Templar, "all this we know or guess at--tell us plainly, is thy master, the Prior, made prisoner, and to whom?""Surely," said Ambrose, "he is in the hands of the men of Belial, infesters of these woods, and contemners of the holy text, 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets naught of evil.'"
"Go to--thou art a fool," said the Templar; "thy superstition is upon a level with Front-de-Boeuf's want of faith; neither of you can render a reason for your belief or unbelief."
"Care not thou for such reports," said the Templar; "but let us think of making good the castle.--How
"Wish for whom thou wilt," said the Templar, "but let us make what defence we can with the soldiers who remain--They are chiefly Front-de-Boeuf's followers, hated by the English for a thousand acts of insolence and oppression."
"To the walls!" answered the Templar;and they both ascended the battlements to do all that skill could dictate, and manhood accomplish, in defence of the place.
Nor did the Templar, an infidel of another stamp, justly characterise his associate, when he said Front-de-Boeuf could assign no cause for his unbelief and contempt for the established faith; for the Baron would have alleged that the Church sold her wares too dear, that the spiritual freedom which she put up to sale was only to be bought like that of the chief captain of Jerusalem, "with a great sum," and Front-de-Boeuf preferred denying the virtue of the medicine, to paying the expense of the physician.
I warrant me, at the ale, or playing their juggling tricks at the bedside of some miserly churl.--Me, the heir of their founder--me, whom their foundation binds them to pray for--me--ungrateful villains as they are!--they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled!--Tell the Templar to come hither--he is a priest, and may do something--But no!--as well confess myself to the devil as to Brian de Bois-Guilbert, who recks neither of heaven nor of hell.--I have heard old men talk of prayer--prayer by their own voice--Such need not to court or to bribe the false priest--But I--I dare not!""Lives Reginald Front-de-Boeuf," said a broken and shrill voice close by his bedside, "to say there is that which he dares not!"
I vow to Saint Nicholas of Limoges a candlestick of pure gold--""Spare thy vow," said the Templar, "and mark me.
If thou wert born of woman--if thou hast but a touch of human charity in thee--if thy heart be not hard as thy breastplate--save my aged father--save this wounded knight!""A knight," answered the Templar, with his characteristic calmness, "a knight, Rebecca, must encounter his fate, whether it meet him in the shape of sword or flame--and who recks how or where a Jew meets with his?""Savage warrior," said Rebecca, "rather will I perish in the flames than accept safety from thee!""Thou shalt not choose, Rebecca--once didst thou foil me, but never mortal did so twice."
A guard, which had been stationed in the outer, or anteroom, and whose spirits were already in a state of alarm, took fright at Wamba's clamour, and, leaving the door open behind them, ran to tell the Templar that foemen had entered the old hall.
Here sat the fierce Templar, mounted on horseback, surrounded by several of the garrison both on horse and foot, who had united their strength to that of this renowned leader, in order to secure the last chance of safety and retreat which remained to them.
Athelstane, who, as the reader knows, was slothful, but not cowardly, beheld the female form whom the Templar protected thus sedulously, and doubted not that it was Rowena whom the knight was carrying off, in despite of all resistance which could be offered.
To snatch a mace from the pavement, on which it lay beside one whose dying grasp had just relinquished it--to rush on the Templar's band, and to strike in quick succession to the right and left, levelling a warrior at each blow, was, for Athelstane's great strength, now animated with unusual fury, but the work of a single moment; he was soon within two yards of Bois-Guilbert, whom he defied in his loudest tone.
"Well," answered the Templar, "an thou wilt tarry there, remember I have redeemed word and glove.
"It was she, then," said the yeoman, "who was carried off by the proud Templar, when he broke through our ranks on yester-even.
"Oh!" answered the Jew, "I would to God thou hadst shot, though the arrow had pierced her bosom!--Better the tomb of her fathers than the dishonourable couch of the licentious and savage Templar.
here is Isaac willing to give thee the means of pleasure and pastime in a bag containing one hundred marks of silver, if thy intercession with thine ally the Templar shall avail to procure the freedom of his daughter."
"Speak, De Bracy," said Fitzurse, almost in the same moment with his master, "thou wert wont to be a man--Where is the Templar?--where Front-de-Boeuf?""The Templar is fled," said De Bracy; "Front-de-Boeuf you will never see more.
Their drink was to be water, and now, to drink like a Templar, is the boast of each jolly boon companion!
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