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"
Your
challenge
would
soon
be
answered
,
"
replied
the
Palmer
,
"
were
your
antagonist
near
you
.
As
the
matter
is
,
disturb
not
the
peaceful
hall
with
vaunts
of
the
issue
of
the
conflict
,
which
you
well
know
can
not
take
place
.
If
Ivanhoe
ever
returns
from
Palestine
,
I
will
be
his
surety
that
he
meets
you
.
"
"
A
goodly
security
!
"
said
the
Knight
Templar
;
"
and
what
do
you
proffer
as
a
pledge
?
"
"
This
reliquary
,
"
said
the
Palmer
,
taking
a
small
ivory
box
from
his
bosom
,
and
crossing
himself
,
"
containing
a
portion
of
the
true
cross
,
brought
from
the
Monastery
of
Mount
Carmel
.
The
Prior
of
Jorvaulx
crossed
himself
and
repeated
a
pater
noster
,
in
which
all
devoutly
joined
,
excepting
the
Jew
,
the
Mahomedans
,
and
the
Templar
;
the
latter
of
whom
,
without
vailing
his
bonnet
,
or
testifying
any
reverence
for
the
alleged
sanctity
of
the
relic
,
took
from
his
neck
a
gold
chain
,
which
he
flung
on
the
board
,
saying
--
"
Let
Prior
Aymer
hold
my
pledge
and
that
of
this
nameless
vagrant
,
in
token
that
when
the
Knight
of
Ivanhoe
comes
within
the
four
seas
of
Britain
,
he
underlies
the
challenge
of
Brian
de
Bois-Guilbert
,
which
,
if
he
answer
not
,
I
will
proclaim
him
as
a
coward
on
the
walls
of
every
Temple
Court
in
Europe
.
"
"
It
will
not
need
,
"
said
the
Lady
Rowena
,
breaking
silence
;
"
My
voice
shall
be
heard
,
if
no
other
in
this
hall
is
raised
in
behalf
of
the
absent
Ivanhoe
.
I
affirm
he
will
meet
fairly
every
honourable
challenge
.
Could
my
weak
warrant
add
security
to
the
inestimable
pledge
of
this
holy
pilgrim
,
I
would
pledge
name
and
fame
that
Ivanhoe
gives
this
proud
knight
the
meeting
he
desires
.
"
A
crowd
of
conflicting
emotions
seemed
to
have
occupied
Cedric
,
and
kept
him
silent
during
this
discussion
.
Gratified
pride
,
resentment
,
embarrassment
,
chased
each
other
over
his
broad
and
open
brow
,
like
the
shadow
of
clouds
drifting
over
a
harvest-field
;
while
his
attendants
,
on
whom
the
name
of
the
sixth
knight
seemed
to
produce
an
effect
almost
electrical
,
hung
in
suspense
upon
their
master
's
looks
.
But
when
Rowena
spoke
,
the
sound
of
her
voice
seemed
to
startle
him
from
his
silence
.
"
Lady
,
"
said
Cedric
,
"
this
beseems
not
;
were
further
pledge
necessary
,
I
myself
,
offended
,
and
justly
offended
,
as
I
am
,
would
yet
gage
my
honour
for
the
honour
of
Ivanhoe
.
But
the
wager
of
battle
is
complete
,
even
according
to
the
fantastic
fashions
of
Norman
chivalry
--
Is
it
not
,
Father
Aymer
?
"
"
It
is
,
"
replied
the
Prior
;
"
and
the
blessed
relic
and
rich
chain
will
I
bestow
safely
in
the
treasury
of
our
convent
,
until
the
decision
of
this
warlike
challenge
.
"
Having
thus
spoken
,
he
crossed
himself
again
and
again
,
and
after
many
genuflections
and
muttered
prayers
,
he
delivered
the
reliquary
to
Brother
Ambrose
,
his
attendant
monk
,
while
he
himself
swept
up
with
less
ceremony
,
but
perhaps
with
no
less
internal
satisfaction
,
the
golden
chain
,
and
bestowed
it
in
a
pouch
lined
with
perfumed
leather
,
which
opened
under
his
arm
.
"
And
now
,
Sir
Cedric
,
"
he
said
,
"
my
ears
are
chiming
vespers
with
the
strength
of
your
good
wine
--
permit
us
another
pledge
to
the
welfare
of
the
Lady
Rowena
,
and
indulge
us
with
liberty
to
pass
to
our
repose
.
"
"
By
the
rood
of
Bromholme
,
"
said
the
Saxon
,
"
you
do
but
small
credit
to
your
fame
,
Sir
Prior
!
Report
speaks
you
a
bonny
monk
,
that
would
hear
the
matin
chime
ere
he
quitted
his
bowl
;
and
,
old
as
I
am
,
I
feared
to
have
shame
in
encountering
you
.
But
,
by
my
faith
,
a
Saxon
boy
of
twelve
,
in
my
time
,
would
not
so
soon
have
relinquished
his
goblet
.
"
