The lion Richard will spare when he has conquered, the eagle Philip will close his wing when he has stricken a prey, even the Austrian bear will sleep when he is gorged; but this horde of ever-hungry wolves know neither pause nor satiety in their rapine.

Seest thou not that they are detaching a party from their main body, and that they take an eastern direction?
Yon are their pages and squires, whom they train up in their accursed mysteries, and whom, as lighter mounted, they send to cut us off from our watering-place.

But they will be disappointed.

I know the war of the desert yet better than they." He spoke a few words to his principal officer, and his whole demeanour and countenance was at once changed from the solemn repose of an Eastern sage accustomed more to contemplation than to action, into the prompt and proud expression of a gallant soldier whose energies are roused by the near approach of a danger which he at once foresees and despises.
To Sir Kenneth's eyes the approaching crisis had a different aspect, and when Adonbec said to him, "Thou must tarry close by my side," he answered solemnly in the negative.
"Yonder," he said, "are my comrades in arms--the men in whose society I have vowed to fight or fall.

On their banner gleams the sign of our most blessed redemption--I cannot fly from the Cross in company with the Crescent." "Fool!" said the Hakim; "their first action would be to do thee to death, were it only to conceal their breach of the truce." "Of that I must take my chance," replied Sir Kenneth; "but I wear not the bonds of the infidels an instant longer than I can cast them from me." "Then will I compel thee to follow me," said El Hakim.
"Compel!" answered Sir Kenneth angrily.