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To
state
that
to
relieve
the
sick
and
wounded
of
another
religion
,
can
not
be
displeasing
to
the
acknowledged
Founder
of
both
our
faiths
,
were
also
unavailing
;
to
plead
that
many
things
which
these
men
(
whom
may
Heaven
pardon
!
)
have
spoken
against
me
are
impossible
,
would
avail
me
but
little
,
since
you
believe
in
their
possibility
;
and
still
less
would
it
advantage
me
to
explain
,
that
the
peculiarities
of
my
dress
,
language
,
and
manners
,
are
those
of
my
people
--
I
had
well-nigh
said
of
my
country
,
but
alas
!
we
have
no
country
.
Nor
will
I
even
vindicate
myself
at
the
expense
of
my
oppressor
,
who
stands
there
listening
to
the
fictions
and
surmises
which
seem
to
convert
the
tyrant
into
the
victim
.
--
God
be
judge
between
him
and
me
!
but
rather
would
I
submit
to
ten
such
deaths
as
your
pleasure
may
denounce
against
me
,
than
listen
to
the
suit
which
that
man
of
Belial
has
urged
upon
me
--
friendless
,
defenceless
,
and
his
prisoner
.
But
he
is
of
your
own
faith
,
and
his
lightest
affirmance
would
weigh
down
the
most
solemn
protestations
of
the
distressed
Jewess
.
I
will
not
therefore
return
to
himself
the
charge
brought
against
me
--
but
to
himself
--
Yes
,
Brian
de
Bois-Guilbert
,
to
thyself
I
appeal
,
whether
these
accusations
are
not
false
?
as
monstrous
and
calumnious
as
they
are
deadly
?
"
There
was
a
pause
;
all
eyes
turned
to
Brain
de
Bois-Guilbert
.
He
was
silent
.
"
Speak
,
"
she
said
,
"
if
thou
art
a
man
--
if
thou
art
a
Christian
,
speak
!
--
I
conjure
thee
,
by
the
habit
which
thou
dost
wear
,
by
the
name
thou
dost
inherit
--
by
the
knighthood
thou
dost
vaunt
--
by
the
honour
of
thy
mother
--
by
the
tomb
and
the
bones
of
thy
father
--
I
conjure
thee
to
say
,
are
these
things
true
?
"
"
Answer
her
,
brother
,
"
said
the
Grand
Master
,
"
if
the
Enemy
with
whom
thou
dost
wrestle
will
give
thee
power
.
"
In
fact
,
Bois-Guilbert
seemed
agitated
by
contending
passions
,
which
almost
convulsed
his
features
,
and
it
was
with
a
constrained
voice
that
at
last
he
replied
,
looking
to
Rebecca
,
--
"
The
scroll
!
--
the
scroll
!
"
"
Ay
,
"
said
Beaumanoir
,
"
this
is
indeed
testimony
!
The
victim
of
her
witcheries
can
only
name
the
fatal
scroll
,
the
spell
inscribed
on
which
is
,
doubtless
,
the
cause
of
his
silence
.
"
But
Rebecca
put
another
interpretation
on
the
words
extorted
as
it
were
from
Bois-Guilbert
,
and
glancing
her
eye
upon
the
slip
of
parchment
which
she
continued
to
hold
in
her
hand
,
she
read
written
thereupon
in
the
Arabian
character
,
"
Demand
a
Champion
!
"
The
murmuring
commentary
which
ran
through
the
assembly
at
the
strange
reply
of
Bois-Guilbert
,
gave
Rebecca
leisure
to
examine
and
instantly
to
destroy
the
scroll
unobserved
.
When
the
whisper
had
ceased
,
the
Grand
Master
spoke
.
"
Rebecca
,
thou
canst
derive
no
benefit
from
the
evidence
of
this
unhappy
knight
,
for
whom
,
as
we
well
perceive
,
the
Enemy
is
yet
too
powerful
Hast
thou
aught
else
to
say
?
"
"
There
is
yet
one
chance
of
life
left
to
me
,
"
said
Rebecca
,
"
even
by
your
own
fierce
laws
.
Life
has
been
miserable
--
miserable
,
at
least
,
of
late
--
but
I
will
not
cast
away
the
gift
of
God
,
while
he
affords
me
the
means
of
defending
it
.
I
deny
this
charge
--
I
maintain
my
innocence
,
and
I
declare
the
falsehood
of
this
accusation
--
I
challenge
the
privilege
of
trial
by
combat
,
and
will
appear
by
my
champion
.
"
