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He
was
deposited
in
the
horse-litter
which
had
brought
him
from
the
lists
,
and
every
precaution
taken
for
his
travelling
with
ease
.
In
one
circumstance
only
even
the
entreaties
of
Rebecca
were
unable
to
secure
sufficient
attention
to
the
accommodation
of
the
wounded
knight
.
Isaac
,
like
the
enriched
traveller
of
Juvenal
's
tenth
satire
,
had
ever
the
fear
of
robbery
before
his
eyes
,
conscious
that
he
would
be
alike
accounted
fair
game
by
the
marauding
Norman
noble
,
and
by
the
Saxon
outlaw
.
He
therefore
journeyed
at
a
great
rate
,
and
made
short
halts
,
and
shorter
repasts
,
so
that
he
passed
by
Cedric
and
Athelstane
who
had
several
hours
the
start
of
him
,
but
who
had
been
delayed
by
their
protracted
feasting
at
the
convent
of
Saint
Withold
's
.
Yet
such
was
the
virtue
of
Miriam
's
balsam
,
or
such
the
strength
of
Ivanhoe
's
constitution
,
that
he
did
not
sustain
from
the
hurried
journey
that
inconvenience
which
his
kind
physician
had
apprehended
.
In
another
point
of
view
,
however
,
the
Jew
's
haste
proved
somewhat
more
than
good
speed
.
The
rapidity
with
which
he
insisted
on
travelling
,
bred
several
disputes
between
him
and
the
party
whom
he
had
hired
to
attend
him
as
a
guard
.
These
men
were
Saxons
,
and
not
free
by
any
means
from
the
national
love
of
ease
and
good
living
which
the
Normans
stigmatized
as
laziness
and
gluttony
.
Reversing
Shylock
's
position
,
they
had
accepted
the
employment
in
hopes
of
feeding
upon
the
wealthy
Jew
,
and
were
very
much
displeased
when
they
found
themselves
disappointed
,
by
the
rapidity
with
which
he
insisted
on
their
proceeding
.
They
remonstrated
also
upon
the
risk
of
damage
to
their
horses
by
these
forced
marches
.
Finally
,
there
arose
betwixt
Isaac
and
his
satellites
a
deadly
feud
,
concerning
the
quantity
of
wine
and
ale
to
be
allowed
for
consumption
at
each
meal
.
And
thus
it
happened
,
that
when
the
alarm
of
danger
approached
,
and
that
which
Isaac
feared
was
likely
to
come
upon
him
,
he
was
deserted
by
the
discontented
mercenaries
on
whose
protection
he
had
relied
,
without
using
the
means
necessary
to
secure
their
attachment
.
In
this
deplorable
condition
the
Jew
,
with
his
daughter
and
her
wounded
patient
,
were
found
by
Cedric
,
as
has
already
been
noticed
,
and
soon
afterwards
fell
into
the
power
of
De
Bracy
and
his
confederates
.
Little
notice
was
at
first
taken
of
the
horse-litter
,
and
it
might
have
remained
behind
but
for
the
curiosity
of
De
Bracy
,
who
looked
into
it
under
the
impression
that
it
might
contain
the
object
of
his
enterprise
,
for
Rowena
had
not
unveiled
herself
.
But
De
Bracy
's
astonishment
was
considerable
,
when
he
discovered
that
the
litter
contained
a
wounded
man
,
who
,
conceiving
himself
to
have
fallen
into
the
power
of
Saxon
outlaws
,
with
whom
his
name
might
be
a
protection
for
himself
and
his
friends
,
frankly
avowed
himself
to
be
Wilfred
of
Ivanhoe
.
The
ideas
of
chivalrous
honour
,
which
,
amidst
his
wildness
and
levity
,
never
utterly
abandoned
De
Bracy
,
prohibited
him
from
doing
the
knight
any
injury
in
his
defenceless
condition
,
and
equally
interdicted
his
betraying
him
to
Front-de-Boeuf
,
who
would
have
had
no
scruples
to
put
to
death
,
under
any
circumstances
,
the
rival
claimant
of
the
fief
of
Ivanhoe
.
On
the
other
hand
,
to
liberate
a
suitor
preferred
by
the
Lady
Rowena
,
as
the
events
of
the
tournament
,
and
indeed
Wilfred
's
previous
banishment
from
his
father
's
house
,
had
made
matter
of
notoriety
,
was
a
pitch
far
above
the
flight
of
De
Bracy
's
generosity
.
A
middle
course
betwixt
good
and
evil
was
all
which
he
found
himself
capable
of
adopting
,
and
he
commanded
two
of
his
own
squires
to
keep
close
by
the
litter
,
and
to
suffer
no
one
to
approach
it
.
If
questioned
,
they
were
directed
by
their
master
to
say
,
that
the
empty
litter
of
the
Lady
Rowena
was
employed
to
transport
one
of
their
comrades
who
had
been
wounded
in
the
scuffle
.
On
arriving
at
Torquilstone
,
while
the
Knight
Templar
and
the
lord
of
that
castle
were
each
intent
upon
their
own
schemes
,
the
one
on
the
Jew
's
treasure
,
and
the
other
on
his
daughter
,
De
Bracy
's
squires
conveyed
Ivanhoe
,
still
under
the
name
of
a
wounded
comrade
,
to
a
distant
apartment
.
This
explanation
was
accordingly
returned
by
these
men
to
Front-de-Boeuf
,
when
he
questioned
them
why
they
did
not
make
for
the
battlements
upon
the
alarm
.
"
A
wounded
companion
!
"
he
replied
in
great
wrath
and
astonishment
.
"
No
wonder
that
churls
and
yeomen
wax
so
presumptuous
as
even
to
lay
leaguer
before
castles
,
and
that
clowns
and
swineherds
send
defiances
to
nobles
,
since
men-at-arms
have
turned
sick
men
's
nurses
,
and
Free
Companions
are
grown
keepers
of
dying
folk
's
curtains
,
when
the
castle
is
about
to
be
assailed
--
To
the
battlements
,
ye
loitering
villains
!
"
he
exclaimed
,
raising
his
stentorian
voice
till
the
arches
around
rung
again
,
"
to
the
battlements
,
or
I
will
splinter
your
bones
with
this
truncheon
!
"
The
men
sulkily
replied
,
"
that
they
desired
nothing
better
than
to
go
to
the
battlements
,
providing
Front-de-Boeuf
would
bear
them
out
with
their
master
,
who
had
commanded
them
to
tend
the
dying
man
.
"
