Ivanhoe By the author of 'Waverley' Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. A ilamn'd cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life. She Stoops to Conquer, When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he fou... more »nd De Bracy already there. " Your love-suit," said De Bracy, " hath, I suppose, been disturbed, like mine, by this obstreperous summons. But you have come later and more reluctantly, and therefore I presume your interview has proved more agreeable than mine." " Has your suit, then, been unsuccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress 9" said the Templar. " By the bones of Thomas a Becket," answered De Bracy, " the Lady Rowena must have heard that I cannot endure the sight of women's tears." " Away !" said the Templar ; " thou a leader of a Free Company, and regard a woman's tears ! A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love, make the flame blaze the brighter." " Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling," replied De Bracy ; " but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. Never was such wringing of hands and such overflowing of eyes, since the days of St. Niobe, of whom Prior Aymer told us. A water- fiend hath possessed the fair Saxon." " A legion of fiends hath occupied the bosom of the Jewess," replied the Templar ; " for I think no single one, not even Apollyon himself, could have inspired such indomitable pride and resolution.—But where is Front- de-Boeuf 1 That horn is sounded more and more clamorously." I wish the Prior had also informed them when Niobe was sainted. Probably during that enlightened period when Pan to Moses leat his pagan horn." L. T. " He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose," replied De Bracy, coolly ; " probahly the howls of Isaac have 'drowned the blast of the bugle. Thou inay'st know, by experience, Sir Brian, that a Jew parting with his treasures on such ...« less