The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
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mind, while his high spirit led him to speak on, as if in
contempt of both. "You can flatter, Sir Knight," he said, "but you escape me not. I must know more from you than you have yet told me. Saw you my royal consort when at Engaddi?" "To my knowledge--no, my lord," replied Sir Kenneth, with considerable perturbation, for he remembered the midnight procession in the chapel of the rocks. "I ask you," said the King, in a sterner voice," whether you were not in the chapel of the Carmelite nuns at Engaddi, and there saw Berengaria, Queen of England, and the ladies of her Court, who went thither on pilgrimage?" "My lord," said Sir Kenneth, "I will speak the truth as in the confessional. In a subterranean chapel, to which the anchorite conducted me, I beheld a choir of ladies do homage to a relic of the highest sanctity; but as I saw not their faces, nor heard their voices, unless in the hymns which they chanted, I cannot tell whether the Queen of England was of the bevy." "And was there no one of these ladies known to you?" Sir Kenneth stood silent. "I ask you," said Richard, raising himself on his elbow, "as a knight and a gentleman--and I shall know by your answer how you value either character--did you, or did you not, know any lady |
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