"He disowns, he scorns, he abhors, the Moorish faith,--even," she added, "with too fierce a zeal." "Thou dost not share that zeal, then?
Well, worships he in secret after the Christian rites ?" Leila hung her head and answered not.
"I understand thy silence.

And in what belief, maiden, wert thou reared beneath his roof ?" "I know not what it is called among men," answered Leila, with firmness, "but it is the faith of the ONE GOD, who protects His chosen, and shall avenge their wrongs--the God who made earth and heaven; and who, in an idolatrous and benighted world, transmitted the knowledge of Himself and His holy laws, from age to age, through the channel of one solitary people, in the plains of Palestine, and by the waters of the Hebron." "And in that faith thou wert trained, maiden, by thy father ?" said the Dominican, calmly.

"I am satisfied.

Rest here, in peace: we may meet again, soon." The last words were spoken with a soft and tranquil smile--a smile in which glazing eyes and agonising hearts had often beheld the ghastly omen of the torture and the stake.
On quitting the unfortunate Leila, the monk took his way towards the neighbouring tent of Ferdinand.

But, ere he reached it, a new thought seemed to strike the holy man; he altered the direction of his steps, and gained one of those little shrines common in Catholic countries, and which had been hastily built of wood, in the centre of a small copse, and by the side of a brawling rivulet, towards the back of the king's pavilion.