Saladin saluted her respectfully, and spoke to her kindly.

He had too great a soul to take pleasure in the humiliation of greatness.
[Illustration: The Christians of the Holy City defiling before Saladin .-- -- 28] The news, spreading through Europe, caused amongst all classes there, high and low, a deep feeling of sorrow, anger, disquietude, and shame.
Jerusalem was a very different thing from Edessa.

The fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem meant the sepulchre of Jesus Christ fallen once more into the hands of the infidels, and, at the same time, the destruction of what had been wrought by Christian Europe in the East, the loss of the only striking and permanent gage of her victories.

Christian pride was as much wounded as Christian piety.

A new fact, moreover, was conspicuous in this series of reverses and in the accounts received of them; after all its defeats and in the midst of its discord, Islamry had found a chieftain and a hero.