I know not how it rose; but now it comes

Like fearful truth, and we were sad, thus left

Hopeless of aid or counsel—till we saw——

Rai. (hastily.) You have my brother here?

Urb. (with embarrassment.) We have; but he——

Rai. But he—but he!—Aymer de Chatillon!

The fiery knight—the very soul o’ the field—

Rushing on danger with the joyous step

Of a hunter o’er the hills!—is that a tone

Wherewith to speak of him? I heard a tale—