Ivanhoe

degraded rather than exalted

with a sparing hand

"And where sleeps Gurth the swineherd?" said the stranger.

"Gurth," replied the bondsman, "sleeps in the cell on your right, as the Jew on that to your left; you serve to keep the child of circumcision separate from the abomination of his tribe. You might have occupied a more honourable place had you accepted of Oswald's invitation."

"It is as well as it is," said the Palmer; "the company, even of a Jew, can hardly spread contamination through an oaken partition."

So saying, he entered the cabin allotted to him, and taking the torch from the domestic's hand, thanked him, and wished him good-night. Having shut the door of his cell, he placed the torch in a candlestick made of wood, and looked around his sleeping apartment, the furniture of which was of the most simple kind. It consisted of a rude wooden stool, and still rude

Accept this alms, friend," continued the lady, offering a piece of gold, "in acknowledgment of thy painful travail, and of the shrines thou hast visited."

How looked he, stranger, when you last saw him? Had disease laid her hand heavy upon his strength and comeliness?"

half the knights on each side were dismounted, some by the dexterity of their adversary's lance,

he splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-ax

the tide of battle seemed to flow now toward the southern, now toward the northern extremity of the lists,

whom it was accounted a point of religion to hate,

in a measure placed in opposition