There too your mother was baptised a Christian.

Thence, since it was not safe for us to stay in the East, we took ship and came safe home, bearing this ring of Jebal with us, for I would not give it up, as his servants demanded that I should do, except to him alone.

But before that vessel sailed, a man disguised as a fisherman brought me a message from Ayoub and his son Saladin, swearing that they would yet recapture Zobeide, the daughter of one of them and sister of the other.
"That is the story, and you see that their oath has not been forgotten, though when in after years they learned of my wife's death, they let the matter lie.

But since then Saladin, who in those days was but a noble youth, has become the greatest sultan that the East has ever known, and having been told of you, Rosamund, by that traitor Lozelle, he seeks to take you in your mother's place, and, daughter, I tell you that I fear him." "At least we have a year or longer in which to prepare ourselves, or to hide," said Rosamund.

"His palmer must travel back to the East before my uncle Saladin can have our answer." "Ay," said Sir Andrew; "perhaps we have a year." "What of the attack on the quay ?" asked Godwin, who had been thinking.