Belphœbe » Ivanhoe http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com literary tidbits Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:04:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ivanhoe http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/ivanhoe-2/ http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/ivanhoe-2/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:37:41 +0000 Mashkioya http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/ivanhoe-2/ The sudden and romantic appearance of his son in the lists at Ashby he [Cedric] had justly regarded as almost a death’s blow to his hopes. His paternal affection, it is true, had for an instant gained the victory over pride and patriotism; but both had returned in full force, and under their joint operation he was now bent upon making a determined effort for the union of Athelstane and Rowena, together with expediting those other measures which seemed necessary to forward the restoration of Saxon independence.

Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

]]> http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/ivanhoe-2/feed/ 0 Ivanhoe http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/ivanhoe/ http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/ivanhoe/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:56:51 +0000 Mashkioya http://benjaminbruce.com/belphoebe/2007/ivanhoe/ “Gallants of England,” said Front-de-Bœuf, “how relish ye your entertainment at Torquilstone? Are ye yet aware what your surquedy and outrecuidance merit, for scoffing at the entertainment of a prince of the house of Anjou? Have ye forgotten how ye requited the unmerited hospitality of the royal John?  An ye pay not the richer ransom, I will hang ye up by the feet from the iron bars of these windows, till the kites and hooded crows have made skeletons of you! Speak out, ye Saxon dogs–what bid ye for your worthless lives? How say you, you of Rotherwood?”

“Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba; “and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.”

Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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