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In
his
joyous
caracole
round
the
lists
,
the
attention
of
the
Prince
was
called
by
the
commotion
,
not
yet
subsided
,
which
had
attended
the
ambitious
movement
of
Isaac
towards
the
higher
places
of
the
assembly
.
The
quick
eye
of
Prince
John
instantly
recognised
the
Jew
,
but
was
much
more
agreeably
attracted
by
the
beautiful
daughter
of
Zion
,
who
,
terrified
by
the
tumult
,
clung
close
to
the
arm
of
her
aged
father
.
The
figure
of
Rebecca
might
indeed
have
compared
with
the
proudest
beauties
of
England
,
even
though
it
had
been
judged
by
as
shrewd
a
connoisseur
as
Prince
John
.
Her
form
was
exquisitely
symmetrical
,
and
was
shown
to
advantage
by
a
sort
of
Eastern
dress
,
which
she
wore
according
to
the
fashion
of
the
females
of
her
nation
.
Her
turban
of
yellow
silk
suited
well
with
the
darkness
of
her
complexion
.
The
brilliancy
of
her
eyes
,
the
superb
arch
of
her
eyebrows
,
her
well-formed
aquiline
nose
,
her
teeth
as
white
as
pearl
,
and
the
profusion
of
her
sable
tresses
,
which
,
each
arranged
in
its
own
little
spiral
of
twisted
curls
,
fell
down
upon
as
much
of
a
lovely
neck
and
bosom
as
a
simarre
of
the
richest
Persian
silk
,
exhibiting
flowers
in
their
natural
colours
embossed
upon
a
purple
ground
,
permitted
to
be
visible
--
all
these
constituted
a
combination
of
loveliness
,
which
yielded
not
to
the
most
beautiful
of
the
maidens
who
surrounded
her
.
It
is
true
,
that
of
the
golden
and
pearl-studded
clasps
,
which
closed
her
vest
from
the
throat
to
the
waist
,
the
three
uppermost
were
left
unfastened
on
account
of
the
heat
,
which
something
enlarged
the
prospect
to
which
we
allude
.
A
diamond
necklace
,
with
pendants
of
inestimable
value
,
were
by
this
means
also
made
more
conspicuous
.
The
feather
of
an
ostrich
,
fastened
in
her
turban
by
an
agraffe
set
with
brilliants
,
was
another
distinction
of
the
beautiful
Jewess
,
scoffed
and
sneered
at
by
the
proud
dames
who
sat
above
her
,
but
secretly
envied
by
those
who
affected
to
deride
them
.
"
By
the
bald
scalp
of
Abraham
,
"
said
Prince
John
,
"
yonder
Jewess
must
be
the
very
model
of
that
perfection
,
whose
charms
drove
frantic
the
wisest
king
that
ever
lived
!
What
sayest
thou
,
Prior
Aymer
?
--
By
the
Temple
of
that
wise
king
,
which
our
wiser
brother
Richard
proved
unable
to
recover
,
she
is
the
very
Bride
of
the
Canticles
!
"
"
The
Rose
of
Sharon
and
the
Lily
of
the
Valley
,
"
--
answered
the
Prior
,
in
a
sort
of
snuffling
tone
;
"
but
your
Grace
must
remember
she
is
still
but
a
Jewess
.
"
"
Ay
!
"
added
Prince
John
,
without
heeding
him
,
"
and
there
is
my
Mammon
of
unrighteousness
too
--
the
Marquis
of
Marks
,
the
Baron
of
Byzants
,
contesting
for
place
with
penniless
dogs
,
whose
threadbare
cloaks
have
not
a
single
cross
in
their
pouches
to
keep
the
devil
from
dancing
there
.
By
the
body
of
St
Mark
,
my
prince
of
supplies
,
with
his
lovely
Jewess
,
shall
have
a
place
in
the
gallery
!
--
What
is
she
,
Isaac
?
Thy
wife
or
thy
daughter
,
that
Eastern
houri
that
thou
lockest
under
thy
arm
as
thou
wouldst
thy
treasure-casket
?
"
"
My
daughter
Rebecca
,
so
please
your
Grace
,
"
answered
Isaac
,
with
a
low
congee
,
nothing
embarrassed
by
the
Prince
's
salutation
,
in
which
,
however
,
there
was
at
least
as
much
mockery
as
courtesy
.
"
The
wiser
man
thou
,
"
said
John
,
with
a
peal
of
laughter
,
in
which
his
gay
followers
obsequiously
joined
.
"
But
,
daughter
or
wife
,
she
should
be
preferred
according
to
her
beauty
and
thy
merits
.
--
Who
sits
above
there
?
"
he
continued
,
bending
his
eye
on
the
gallery
.
"
Saxon
churls
,
lolling
at
their
lazy
length
!
--
out
upon
them
!
--
let
them
sit
close
,
and
make
room
for
my
prince
of
usurers
and
his
lovely
daughter
.
I
'll
make
the
hinds
know
they
must
share
the
high
places
of
the
synagogue
with
those
whom
the
synagogue
properly
belongs
to
.
"
Those
who
occupied
the
gallery
to
whom
this
injurious
and
unpolite
speech
was
addressed
,
were
the
family
of
Cedric
the
Saxon
,
with
that
of
his
ally
and
kinsman
,
Athelstane
of
Coningsburgh
,
a
personage
,
who
,
on
account
of
his
descent
from
the
last
Saxon
monarchs
of
England
,
was
held
in
the
highest
respect
by
all
the
Saxon
natives
of
the
north
of
England
.
But
with
the
blood
of
this
ancient
royal
race
,
many
of
their
infirmities
had
descended
to
Athelstane
.
He
was
comely
in
countenance
,
bulky
and
strong
in
person
,
and
in
the
flower
of
his
age
--
yet
inanimate
in
expression
,
dull-eyed
,
heavy-browed
,
inactive
and
sluggish
in
all
his
motions
,
and
so
slow
in
resolution
,
that
the
soubriquet
of
one
of
his
ancestors
was
conferred
upon
him
,
and
he
was
very
generally
called
Athelstane
the
Unready
.
His
friends
,
and
he
had
many
,
who
,
as
well
as
Cedric
,
were
passionately
attached
to
him
,
contended
that
this
sluggish
temper
arose
not
from
want
of
courage
,
but
from
mere
want
of
decision
;
others
alleged
that
his
hereditary
vice
of
drunkenness
had
obscured
his
faculties
,
never
of
a
very
acute
order
,
and
that
the
passive
courage
and
meek
good-nature
which
remained
behind
,
were
merely
the
dregs
of
a
character
that
might
have
been
deserving
of
praise
,
but
of
which
all
the
valuable
parts
had
flown
off
in
the
progress
of
a
long
course
of
brutal
debauchery
.
