wish. To you, therefore, the gift is of little value; and to me, what I part with is of much less. Let me not think you deem so wretchedly ill of my nation as your commons 1 believe. Think ye that I prize these sparkling fragments of stone above my liberty, or that my father values them in comparison to the honor of his only child? Accept them, lady. To me they are valueless. I will never wear jewels more."

"You are, then, unhappy!" said Rowena, struck with the manner in which Rebecca uttered the last words. "Oh, remain with us! The counsel of holy men will wean you from your erring law, and I will be a sister to you."

"No, lady," answered Rebecca, the same calm melancholy reigning in her soft voice and beautiful features, “that may not be. I may not change the faith of my fathers like a garment unsuited to the climate in which I seek to dwell; and unhappy, lady, I will not be. He, to whom I dedicate my future life, will be my comforter, if I do His will."

66 Have you, then, convents, to one of which you mean to retire?" asked Rowena.

"No, lady," said the Jewess; "but among our people, since the time of Abraham downwards, have been women who have devoted their thoughts to Heaven, and their actions to works of kindness to men, tending the sick, feeding the hungry, and relieving the distressed. Among these will Rebecca be numbered. Say this to thy lord, should he chance to inquire after the fate of her whose life he saved."

There was an involuntary tremor on Rebecca's voice, and a tenderness of accent, which perhaps betrayed more than she would willingly have expressed. She hastened to bid Rowena adieu.

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"Farewell!" she said. May He who made both Jew and Christian shower down on you His choicest blessings! The bark that wafts us hence will be under weigh ere we can reach the port."

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She glided from the apartment, leaving Rowena surprised as if a vision had passed before her. The fair Saxon related the singular conference to her husband, on whose mind it made a deep impression. He lived long and happily with Rowena, for they were attached to each other by the bonds of early affection, and they loved each other the more from the recollection of the obstacles which had impeded their union. Yet it would be inquiring too curiously to ask whether the recollection of Rebecca's beauty and magnanimity did not recur to his mind more frequently than the fair descendant of Alfred might altogether have approved.

Ivanhoe distinguished himself in the service of Richard, and was graced with further marks of the royal favor. He might have risen still higher, but for the premature death1 of the heroic Coeur-de-Lion before the Castle of Chaluz, near Limoges. With the life of a generous but rash and romantic monarch perished all the projects which his ambition and his generosity had formed; to whom may be applied, with a slight alteration, the lines composed by Johnson for Charles of Sweden:

His fate was destined to a foreign strand,

A petty fortress and an "humble" hand;

He left the name at which the world grew pale,

To point a moral, or adorn a TALE.

1 Richard perished in a petty disagreement with one of his foreign barons, the Viscount of Limoges, about some treasure that had been found on the latter's estate. Richard, while besieging the Viscount's Castle of Chaluz, was wounded by an arrow in his shoulder, from the effects of which he died, April 6, 1199.

GLOSSARY.

ABACUS. The staff of office of the

Grand Master of the Knights Tem

plars.

hanging, it serves for outlook and defense. BATON. A staff.

ABBEY. A monastery; a place of re- BATTLEMENTS. The indented para

BANDEAU. A narrow band or fillet; BOON. Jolly; companionable.

a portion of a head-dress. BANDITTI. Bandits; outlaws. BARBICAN. An outwork or out-tower defending the entrance to a castle, usually commanding its approach over a drawbridge.

BARRIERS. Inclosures for tourna-
ments; fortifications outside the
outer walls of a castle.
BARTISAN. A small turret so placed

BOUNTY.
BRAKES.

Favor.

Thick underbrush.

BRAWN. Flesh of a boar or of swine; pork.

BREVIARY. Prayer-book of the Romish Church.

BROTHER. A member of a religious order or body.

BROWN-BILL. A form of bill or halberd.

at the angle of a tower or para- BUCKRAM. A stiff, coarse fabric. pet, that, protruding and over- BURGHERS. Townspeople.

BUTT. 1. A cask. 2. A mark for CROWDER. A player of a crowd or

BUXOM. Genial; jolly; healthy; CRYPT. Generally a vault beneath a

CORSELET. Armor (breast-plate and EPICUREAN. Loving pleasure.