But my heart was bitter against her and you, and the imaum, he whom you smote, put into my mind the trick that cost him his eye and almost cost a worn-out and sorrowful man his life.

I have spoken." "I thank you, sire, who were always noble," answered Godwin.
"You say so.

Yet I have done things to you and yours that you can scarcely hold as noble," said Saladin.

"I stole your cousin from her home, as her mother had been stolen from mine, paying back ill with ill, which is against the law, and in his own hall my servants slew her father and your uncle, who was once my friend.
Well, these things I did because a fate drove me on--the fate of a dream, the fate of a dream.

Say, Sir Godwin, is that story which they tell in the camps true, that a vision came to you before the battle of Hattin, and that you warned the leaders of the Franks not to advance against me ?" "Yes, it is true," answered Godwin, and he told the vision, and of how he had sworn to it on the Rood.
"And what did they say to you ?" "They laughed at me, and hinted that I was a sorcerer, or a traitor in your pay, or both." "Blind fools, who would not hear the truth when it was sent to them by the pure mouth of a prophet," muttered Saladin.