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The Albigenses, by the Author of 'bertram'.
The Albigenses by the Author of 'bertram' Author:Charles Robert Maturin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. tvritti, Moiwa, As Sir Paladour approached the stranger, the latter wrapt himself in the folds of a vast houpland, which covered even the flanks of his horse, and, drawing his barret over his face, seemed wishing to render his person wholly undistinguishable. To the inquiries of the knight, however, he prepared to return an answer; especially when the inquirer added, " Methinks the band of Pelerins of whom I sought my way this morn have shown me aught but the right one." " So do they with many," said the stranger in a disguised voice, and evidently with a deeper meaning than his words at first seemed to bear -- " so do they with many -- it is their use; meanwhile, sir crusader, (for such I deem you,)your courtesy enforces me to teach you what otherwise I might withhold. Your way to the castle of Courtenaye lieth right onward, yet may you hardly reach it by to-morrow's night; and in your way, if I remember me, there is a lake, over which I doubt that you will find bark or boat to waft you at this hour." " Sir traveller," said the Paladour, " thou knowest, that to place peril in the path of a true knight, is to determine his choice of that path, were a thousand courting him to safety." " There is more than you wot of, perchance," said the traveller. " Men say -- I vouch not for the tale -- that at midnight a female form appears on the lake, and beckons belated travellers to her bark, promising to waft them over with all swiftness and security; but of those who embarked, none within mortal memory ever reached the other side." " Of earthly might I reck not," said the knight after a pause,...« less