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Hitherto
,
Rowena
had
sustained
her
part
in
this
trying
scene
with
undismayed
courage
,
but
it
was
because
she
had
not
considered
the
danger
as
serious
and
imminent
.
Her
disposition
was
naturally
that
which
physiognomists
consider
as
proper
to
fair
complexions
,
mild
,
timid
,
and
gentle
;
but
it
had
been
tempered
,
and
,
as
it
were
,
hardened
,
by
the
circumstances
of
her
education
.
Accustomed
to
see
the
will
of
all
,
even
of
Cedric
himself
,
(
sufficiently
arbitrary
with
others
,
)
give
way
before
her
wishes
,
she
had
acquired
that
sort
of
courage
and
self-confidence
which
arises
from
the
habitual
and
constant
deference
of
the
circle
in
which
we
move
.
She
could
scarce
conceive
the
possibility
of
her
will
being
opposed
,
far
less
that
of
its
being
treated
with
total
disregard
.
Her
haughtiness
and
habit
of
domination
was
,
therefore
,
a
fictitious
character
,
induced
over
that
which
was
natural
to
her
,
and
it
deserted
her
when
her
eyes
were
opened
to
the
extent
of
her
own
danger
,
as
well
as
that
of
her
lover
and
her
guardian
;
and
when
she
found
her
will
,
the
slightest
expression
of
which
was
wont
to
command
respect
and
attention
,
now
placed
in
opposition
to
that
of
a
man
of
a
strong
,
fierce
,
and
determined
mind
,
who
possessed
the
advantage
over
her
,
and
was
resolved
to
use
it
,
she
quailed
before
him
.
After
casting
her
eyes
around
,
as
if
to
look
for
the
aid
which
was
nowhere
to
be
found
,
and
after
a
few
broken
interjections
,
she
raised
her
hands
to
heaven
,
and
burst
into
a
passion
of
uncontrolled
vexation
and
sorrow
.
It
was
impossible
to
see
so
beautiful
a
creature
in
such
extremity
without
feeling
for
her
,
and
De
Bracy
was
not
unmoved
,
though
he
was
yet
more
embarrassed
than
touched
.
He
had
,
in
truth
,
gone
too
far
to
recede
;
and
yet
,
in
Rowena
's
present
condition
,
she
could
not
be
acted
on
either
by
argument
or
threats
.
He
paced
the
apartment
to
and
fro
,
now
vainly
exhorting
the
terrified
maiden
to
compose
herself
,
now
hesitating
concerning
his
own
line
of
conduct
.
If
,
thought
he
,
I
should
be
moved
by
the
tears
and
sorrow
of
this
disconsolate
damsel
,
what
should
I
reap
but
the
loss
of
these
fair
hopes
for
which
I
have
encountered
so
much
risk
,
and
the
ridicule
of
Prince
John
and
his
jovial
comrades
?
"
And
yet
,
"
he
said
to
himself
,
"
I
feel
myself
ill
framed
for
the
part
which
I
am
playing
.
I
can
not
look
on
so
fair
a
face
while
it
is
disturbed
with
agony
,
or
on
those
eyes
when
they
are
drowned
in
tears
.
I
would
she
had
retained
her
original
haughtiness
of
disposition
,
or
that
I
had
a
larger
share
of
Front-de-Boeuf
's
thrice-tempered
hardness
of
heart
!
"
Agitated
by
these
thoughts
,
he
could
only
bid
the
unfortunate
Rowena
be
comforted
,
and
assure
her
,
that
as
yet
she
had
no
reason
for
the
excess
of
despair
to
which
she
was
now
giving
way
.
But
in
this
task
of
consolation
De
Bracy
was
interrupted
by
the
horn
,
"
hoarse-winded
blowing
far
and
keen
,
"
which
had
at
the
same
time
alarmed
the
other
inmates
of
the
castle
,
and
interrupted
their
several
plans
of
avarice
and
of
license
.
Of
them
all
,
perhaps
,
De
Bracy
least
regretted
the
interruption
;
for
his
conference
with
the
Lady
Rowena
had
arrived
at
a
point
,
where
he
found
it
equally
difficult
to
prosecute
or
to
resign
his
enterprise
.
And
here
we
can
not
but
think
it
necessary
to
offer
some
better
proof
than
the
incidents
of
an
idle
tale
,
to
vindicate
the
melancholy
representation
of
manners
which
has
been
just
laid
before
the
reader
.
It
is
grievous
to
think
that
those
valiant
barons
,
to
whose
stand
against
the
crown
the
liberties
of
England
were
indebted
for
their
existence
,
should
themselves
have
been
such
dreadful
oppressors
,
and
capable
of
excesses
contrary
not
only
to
the
laws
of
England
,
but
to
those
of
nature
and
humanity
.
But
,
alas
!
we
have
only
to
extract
from
the
industrious
Henry
one
of
those
numerous
passages
which
he
has
collected
from
contemporary
historians
,
to
prove
that
fiction
itself
can
hardly
reach
the
dark
reality
of
the
horrors
of
the
period
.
The
description
given
by
the
author
of
the
Saxon
Chronicle
of
the
cruelties
exercised
in
the
reign
of
King
Stephen
by
the
great
barons
and
lords
of
castles
,
who
were
all
Normans
,
affords
a
strong
proof
of
the
excesses
of
which
they
were
capable
when
their
passions
were
inflamed
.
"
They
grievously
oppressed
the
poor
people
by
building
castles
;
and
when
they
were
built
,
they
filled
them
with
wicked
men
,
or
rather
devils
,
who
seized
both
men
and
women
who
they
imagined
had
any
money
,
threw
them
into
prison
,
and
put
them
to
more
cruel
tortures
than
the
martyrs
ever
endured
.
They
suffocated
some
in
mud
,
and
suspended
others
by
the
feet
,
or
the
head
,
or
the
thumbs
,
kindling
fires
below
them
.
They
squeezed
the
heads
of
some
with
knotted
cords
till
they
pierced
their
brains
,
while
they
threw
others
into
dungeons
swarming
with
serpents
,
snakes
,
and
toads
.
"
But
it
would
be
cruel
to
put
the
reader
to
the
pain
of
perusing
the
remainder
of
this
description
.
