where, in a lower chamber, strangely cool and entirely of alabaster,
was an elaborately wrought marble tomb, upon which I beheld, stretched
at full length, a knight, not of bronze, or marble, or jasper, as
are seen on other tombs, but of actual flesh and bone. His right
hand (which seemed to me somewhat hairy and sinewy, a sign of great
strength in its owner) lay on the side of his heart; but before I
could put any question to Montesinos, he, seeing me gazing at the tomb
in amazement, said to me, 'This is my friend Durandarte, flower and
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to tell him that she loved him. A dozen times she thought
‘None the less a glutton and a murderer and a coward,
eyes down—‘the doubt is perhaps a prompting of the
two followers, and desired to wait upon Basil. This news
said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after
he had little care; but the infinite sadness of its suggestion,
by his emotion to move forward from the couch. ‘By the
for the religion of the Gothic people, that heresy of Arianism
all the inhabitants came down to the beach to see us pitch
were garrisoned by barbarians of many tongues, who bore
and he pulled up short, for, instinctively, he knew that
Regarding him with a grave eye, his friend replied in an