. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . ng of two fierce tides—the conflict of two oceansmoved bv adverse winds! 540 REBECCA DESCRIBES THE SIEGE TO IVANHOE. She turned her head from the lattice, as if unable longer to endure asight so terrible. Look forth again, Eebecca, saidlvanhoe, mistaking the cause of herretiring ; thearchery must ina degree haveceased; for theyare now fightinghand to hand.—Look, there isnow less dan-ger. Rebecca againlooked forth andalmost immedi-ately exclaimed, Holy proph-ets of the law Front-de- B
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . ng of two fierce tides—the conflict of two oceansmoved bv adverse winds! 540 REBECCA DESCRIBES THE SIEGE TO IVANHOE. She turned her head from the lattice, as if unable longer to endure asight so terrible. Look forth again, Eebecca, saidlvanhoe, mistaking the cause of herretiring ; thearchery must ina degree haveceased; for theyare now fightinghand to hand.—Look, there isnow less dan-ger. Rebecca againlooked forth andalmost immedi-ately exclaimed, Holy proph-ets of the law Front-de- Boeuland the BlackKnight fight oilthe beach handto hand, amidthe roar of theirfollowers, whowatch the prog-ress of the strikewith the caus-of the 1and of the caj)-tive! She thenuttered a loudshriek, and ex-claimed, He indown !—ho is down ! Wiio is down ? cried Ivanhoe. Th* Black Knight, answered li(l)Occa, faintly ; then instantlyagain shouted with joyful eagerness— But no—but no !—the name of theLord of hosts be blessed!—he is on foot again, and fights as if there werQ. nil, .\.N(.ii;.Nr .sii:u.\i;iiui,ii REBECCA DESCRIBES THE SIEGE TO IVANHOE. 541 twenty mens strength in his single arm—His sword is broken—he snatcLe3an axe from a yeoman—he presses Front-de-Boeuf with blow on blow—?The giant stoops and totters like an oak under the steel of the woodman—he falls—he falls ! Front-de-Boeuf? exclaimed Ivanhoe. Front-de-BcBuf! answered the Jewess; his men rush to therescue, headed by the haughty Templar—their united force compels thechampion to pause—They drag Front-de-Boeuf within the walls. The assailants have won the barriers, have they not ? saidIvanhoe. They have—they have! exclaimed Ptebecca and tbey press thebesieged hard upon the outer wall; some plant ladders, some swarm likebees, and endeavor to ascend upon the shoulders of each other—down gostones, beams, and trunks of trees upon their heads, and as jast as theybea
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