Page:The Coming Race, etc - 1888.djvu/241

Rh been kindled merely to gratify the revenge, or favour the escape of an individual. Shaking, therefore, from his kingly spirit the thrill of superstitious awe that the greatness of the disaster, when associated with the name of a sorcerer, at first occasioned, he resolved to make advantage out of misfortune itself. The excitement, the wrath of the troops, produced the temper most fit for action.

"And Heaven, "said the King of Spain to his knights and chiefs, as they assembled round him, " has, in this conflagration, announced to the warriors of the Cross, that henceforth their camp shall be the palaces of Granada! Wo to the Moslem with to-morrow's sun!"

Arms clanged, and swords leaped from their sheaths, as the Christian knights echoed the anathema—"!"