Heroines of the Crusades

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the grave of hopeless love, and thenceforth in her pale, changeless beauty, she looked the ivory shrine, where the a

reathless awe to wild tales and ghostly legends of the terrible Vikings; who drove their daring keels into unknown seas, and immured their wailing captives in sunless dungeons of nort

e green vales of Judea-walking unsandaled upon the glassy waves of Galilee, and standing in robes white as the light upon the top of Tabor, agonizing in Gethsemane, and suffering upon Calvary for the redemption

le on Arab steeds, fleet as the desert wind-terrible Turks from the wilds of Khosser, swifter than leopards, and more fierce than the evening wolves-swarthy Nubians clustering like locusts in the holy places-toil-worn pilgrims

monks, was carried to heaven on the backs of fiends; but if by the favor of St. Stephen, I ever visit the Holy Land, it

said Richard, "and one

gs should no longer feed upon the flesh of christian babes. Shame to the peers of Nor

t night a small vessel anchored off the coast, and a messenger came in breathless haste to the palace. I could not gain speech with

way Turold with a frown, when he brought her his pattern of the wooden fort," sa

reach Edwin," said Ag

liam, as rising from the mossy bank upon which they had been sitting, the anxious party

the oratory, stood with her before an altar covered with a richly embroidered velvet pall. Upon the altar was pla

with the holy cross before thee, and the eyes of our blessed lady looking down upon thee, tell me

ell me truly, wilt thou be to Edwin a guardian Fylgia in weal o

ther, brother, friend, or priest, compel, wilt thou with Edwin keep thy plighted troth?" and Agatha answered, "I will with Edwin keep my plighted troth

on the breast of his mistress should shield him from danger, defeat, and death! the trusting Agatha keeping silent vigils by her side, w