. Waverley novels. ay shrouded in a verdant mantle of trees,where the private gardens of wealthy or distin-guished individuals, or places of public recreation,shot down upon and were bounded by the glassywaters. On the Bosphorus, which might be seen in thedistance, the little fleet of Tancred was lying inthe same station they had gained during the night,which was fitted to command the opposite landing;this their general had preferred to a midnight de-scent upon Constantinople, not knowing whether,so coming, they might be received as friends orenemies. This delay, however, had given theGreeks a
. Waverley novels. ay shrouded in a verdant mantle of trees,where the private gardens of wealthy or distin-guished individuals, or places of public recreation,shot down upon and were bounded by the glassywaters. On the Bosphorus, which might be seen in thedistance, the little fleet of Tancred was lying inthe same station they had gained during the night,which was fitted to command the opposite landing;this their general had preferred to a midnight de-scent upon Constantinople, not knowing whether,so coming, they might be received as friends orenemies. This delay, however, had given theGreeks an opportunity, either by the orders ofAlexius or the equally powerful mandates of someof the conspirators, to tow six ships of war, fullof armed men, and provided with the maritimeoffensive weapons peculiar to the Greeks at thatperiod, which they had moored so as exactly tocover the place where the troops of Tancred mustnecessarily land. I Ursel on the by W. Hatherell, R. I. — Etched by L. Kratke. I. W H^T^ £(l£ I COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. 133 This preparation gave some surprise to thevaliant Tancred, who did not know that such ves-sels had arrived in the harbour from Lemnos onthe preceding night. The undaunted courage ofthat prince was, however, in no respect to beshaken by the degree of unexpected danger withwhich his adventure now appeared to be attended. This splendid view, from the description ofwhich we have in some degree digressed, was seenby the physician and Ursel from a terrace, theloftiest almost on the palace of the the cityward, it was bounded by a solid wall,of considerable height, giving a resting-place forthe roof of a lower building, which, sloping out-ward, broke to the view the vast height unobscuredotherwise save by a high and massy balustrade,composed of bronze, which, to the havenward,sank sheer down upon an uninterrupted precipice. No sooner, therefore, had Ursel turned his eyesthat way, than, though placed far from the brin
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