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Surely this is the pure, unadulterated metal. Alas ! that it should sometimes lack the glitter of that counterfeit which women grasp at so eagerly in preference to the true gold. So, in extremity of danger, shattered in battle against the chosen friend and comrade whose treachery was only less galling to his noble heart than the disloyalty of his queen, beset by

stern old foes of himself and Christendom, erst by prowess of that "glorious company,"