The Alhambra . So the trumpets were sounded; the cross was again rearedaloft, and the band of zealots resumed their march. As theypassed through the streets of Cordova the people were amazedat beholding a hermit bearing a cross at the head of a warlikemultitude; but when they learnt that a miraculous victory wasto be effected and Granada destroyed, labourers and artisansthrew by the implements of their handicrafts and joined in thecrusade; while a mercenary rabble followed on with a view ofplunder. 4oS THE ALUAMBRA A number of cavaliers of rank who lacked faith in thepromised miracle, and drea
The Alhambra . So the trumpets were sounded; the cross was again rearedaloft, and the band of zealots resumed their march. As theypassed through the streets of Cordova the people were amazedat beholding a hermit bearing a cross at the head of a warlikemultitude; but when they learnt that a miraculous victory wasto be effected and Granada destroyed, labourers and artisansthrew by the implements of their handicrafts and joined in thecrusade; while a mercenary rabble followed on with a view ofplunder. 4oS THE ALUAMBRA A number of cavaliers of rank who lacked faith in thepromised miracle, and dreaded the consequences of thisunprovoked irruption into the country of the Moor, assembledat the bridge of the Guadalquivir and endeavoured to dissuadethe grand master from crossing. He was deaf to prayers,expostulations, or menaces ; his followers were enraged at thisopposition to the cause of the faith ; they put an end to theparley by their clamours; the cross was again reared andborne triumphantly across the
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