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Ivanhoe

CHAPTER XXII
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Think not I speak to thee only to excite thy terror, and practise on the base cowardice thou hast derived from thy tribe.

I swear to thee by that which thou dost NOT believe, by the gospel which our church teaches, and by the keys which are given her to bind and to loose, that my purpose is deep and peremptory.

This dungeon is no place for trifling.

Prisoners ten thousand times more distinguished than thou have died within these walls, and their fate hath never been known! But for thee is reserved a long and lingering death, to which theirs were luxury." He again made a signal for the slaves to approach, and spoke to them apart, in their own language; for he also had been in Palestine, where perhaps, he had learnt his lesson of cruelty.

The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil.


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