[Leila by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookLeila CHAPTER II 16/16
"I am not your enemy," said he, sullenly, throwing down his weapon--"bear me to your camp." A trooper seized his rein, and, scouring along, the Spaniards soon reached the retreating army. Meanwhile the evening darkened, the shout and the roar grew gradually less loud and loud---the battle had ceased--the stragglers had joined their several standards and, by the light of the first star, the Moorish force, bearing their wounded brethren, and elated with success, re-entered the gates of Granada, as the black charger of the hero of the day, closing the rear of the cavalry, disappeared within the gloomy portals..
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