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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS
[CHAP. V1IL
bright blue sky ; even that was soon darkened by their funeral
pall of smoke, as volley after volley Hashed from a thousand
muskets within the ramparts upon their defenceless and devoted
band. Startling and fearfully sudden as was the deatn, they met
it as became their fearless character—some with arms crossed
upon their mailed bosoms, and their turbaned heads devoutly
bowed in prayer ; some with flashing swords and fierce curses,
alike unavailing against their dastard and ruthless foe. All
that chivalrous and splendid throng, save one, sank rapidly be-
neath the deadly fire into a red and writhing mass—that one was
Emim Bey. He spurred his charger over a heap of his slaugh-
tered comrades, and sprang upon the battlements. It was a
dizzy height, but the next moment he was in the air—another,
and he was disengaging himself from his crushed and dying
horse amid a shower of bullets. He escaped, and found safety
in the sanctuary of a mosque, and ultimately in the deserts of
the Thebaid.
[CHAP. V1IL
bright blue sky ; even that was soon darkened by their funeral
pall of smoke, as volley after volley Hashed from a thousand
muskets within the ramparts upon their defenceless and devoted
band. Startling and fearfully sudden as was the deatn, they met
it as became their fearless character—some with arms crossed
upon their mailed bosoms, and their turbaned heads devoutly
bowed in prayer ; some with flashing swords and fierce curses,
alike unavailing against their dastard and ruthless foe. All
that chivalrous and splendid throng, save one, sank rapidly be-
neath the deadly fire into a red and writhing mass—that one was
Emim Bey. He spurred his charger over a heap of his slaugh-
tered comrades, and sprang upon the battlements. It was a
dizzy height, but the next moment he was in the air—another,
and he was disengaging himself from his crushed and dying
horse amid a shower of bullets. He escaped, and found safety
in the sanctuary of a mosque, and ultimately in the deserts of
the Thebaid.