Chantilly [Signed Georgina Alicia L ]

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 VII. These were briefly the events which caused all the sorrow of the Lady Blanche, making her so bitterly lament, that by an overweening confidence in the Baron's indulgence and generosity, she should have suffered him to remain in ignorance of the arrival of El Adhel's ransom; and never did the...
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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 VII. These were briefly the events which caused all the sorrow of the Lady Blanche, making her so bitterly lament, that by an overweening confidence in the Baron's indulgence and generosity, she should have suffered him to remain in ignorance of the arrival of El Adhel's ransom; and never did the joyous note of Clo- domir's horn sound so sweetly in her ear as when it announced his return on the evening of this eventful day. With her whole soul bent upon saving the page from death, and her husband's name fromdishonour, she rushed forward to meet him, and heedless of the presence of Robert, with an energy that somewhat startled the Baron, implored that ere sentence was passed upon the Moor, he would listen to a disclosure which she could make respecting him. It was not in the power of Clodomir to resist a request from the Lady Blanche, and already prepossessed in favour of the Moor by the promptings of his own heart, he readily acceded, and followed to her chamber, fully hoping that something might yet occur before the morrow to exonerate the Moor in Robert's eyes. But who shall attempt to describe the tumult of emotion with which he listened to the full confirmation of what he had himself already more than half suspected ? Joy at El Adhel's good fortune, mingled with admiration of the youth's disinterested, though misplaced, zeal, and gratitude to Heaven for having been sparedthe everlasting shame which the death of a ransomed prisoner would have cast upon his name, took alternate possession of his bosom. Nor yet was the Red Knight forgotten. Although little dreaming of the value of the captive, when he had made the vow to bestow the whole of the ransom upon his cousin, yet not one sigh escaped him at the unexpected richness of the prize he had lost; it might r...