Leave me to recollect my sins, and reconcile myself to Heaven." "I leave thee in thine obstinacy," said the physician; "the mist hides the precipice from those who are doomed to fall over it." He withdrew slowly, turning from time to time his head, as if to observe whether the devoted knight might not recall him either by word or signal.

At last his turbaned figure was lost among the labyrinth of tents which lay extended beneath, whitening in the pale light of the dawning, before which the moonbeam had now faded away.
But although the physician Adonbec's words had not made that impression upon Kenneth which the sage desired, they had inspired the Scot with a motive for desiring life, which, dishonoured as he conceived himself to be, he was before willing to part from as from a sullied vestment no longer becoming his wear.

Much that had passed betwixt himself and the hermit, besides what he had observed between the anchorite and Sheerkohf (or Ilderim), he now recalled to recollection, and tended to confirm what the Hakim had told him of the secret article of the treaty.
"The reverend impostor!" he exclaimed to himself; "the hoary hypocrite! He spoke of the unbelieving husband converted by the believing wife; and what do I know but that the traitor exhibited to the Saracen, accursed of God, the beauties of Edith Plantagenet, that the hound might judge if the princely Christian lady were fit to be admitted into the haram of a misbeliever?
If I had yonder infidel Ilderim, or whatsoever he is called, again in the gripe with which I once held him fast as ever hound held hare, never again should HE at least come on errand disgraceful to the honour of Christian king or noble and virtuous maiden.

But I--my hours are fast dwindling into minutes--yet, while I have life and breath, something must be done, and speedily." He paused for a few minutes, threw from him his helmet, then strode down the hill, and took the road to King Richard's pavilion..