What does the Moorish dog bid for her ?" asked Don Beltran, still smiling grimly.
"The Alfaqui offers 100,000 dinars, twenty-four horses with their caparisons, twenty-four suits of plate-armor, and diamonds and rubies to the amount of 1,000,000 dinars." "Ho, slaves!" roared Don Beltran, "show the Jew my treasury of gold.

How many hundred thousand pieces are there ?" And ten enormous chests were produced in which the accountant counted 1,000 bags of 1,000 dirhems each, and displayed several caskets of jewels containing such a treasure of rubies, smaragds, diamonds, and jacinths, as made the eyes of the aged ambassador twinkle with avarice.
"How many horses are there in my stable ?" continued Don Beltran; and Muley, the master of the horse, numbered three hundred fully caparisoned; and there was, likewise, armor of the richest sort for as many cavaliers, who followed the banner of this doughty captain.
"I want neither money nor armor," said the ferocious knight; "tell this to the Alfaqui, Jew.

And I will keep the child, his daughter, to serve the messes for my dogs, and clean the platters for my scullions." "Deprive not the old man of his child," here interposed the Knight of Ivanhoe; "bethink thee, brave Don Beltran, she is but an infant in years." "She is my captive, Sir Knight," replied the surly Don Beltran; "I will do with my own as becomes me." "Take 200,000 dirhems," cried the Jew; "more!--anything! The Alfaqui will give his life for his child!" "Come hither, Zutulbe!--come hither, thou Moorish pearl!" yelled the ferocious warrior; "come closer, my pretty black-eyed houri of heathenesse! Hast heard the name of Beltran de Espada y Trabuco ?" "There were three brothers of that name at Alarcos, and my brothers slew the Christian dogs!" said the proud young girl, looking boldly at Don Beltran, who foamed with rage.
"The Moors butchered my mother and her little ones, at midnight, in our castle of Murcia," Beltran said.
"Thy father fled like a craven, as thou didst, Don Beltran!" cried the high-spirited girl.
"By Saint Jago, this is too much!" screamed the infuriated nobleman; and the next moment there was a shriek, and the maiden fell to the ground with Don Beltran's dagger in her side.
"Death is better than dishonor!" cried the child, rolling on the blood-stained marble pavement.

"I--I spit upon thee, dog of a Christian!" and with this, and with a savage laugh, she fell back and died.
"Bear back this news, Jew, to the Alfaqui," howled the Don, spurning the beauteous corpse with his foot.

"I would not have ransomed her for all the gold in Barbary!" And shuddering, the old Jew left the apartment, which Ivanhoe quitted likewise.
When they were in the outer court, the knight said to the Jew, "Isaac of York, dost thou not know me ?" and threw back his hood, and looked at the old man.
The old Jew stared wildly, rushed forward as if to seize his hand, then started back, trembling convulsively, and clutching his withered hands over his face, said, with a burst of grief, "Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe!--no, no!--I do not know thee!" "Holy mother! what has chanced ?" said Ivanhoe, in his turn becoming ghastly pale; "where is thy daughter--where is Rebecca ?" "Away from me!" said the old Jew, tottering.