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Both warriors, worn by
toil and travel, were soon fast asleep, each on his separate
pallet.

CHAPTER IV.
Kenneth the Scot was uncertain how long his senses had been lost
in profound repose, when he was roused to recollection by a sense
of oppression on his chest, which at first suggested a flirting
dream of struggling with a powerful opponent, and at length
recalled him fully to his senses. He was about to demand who was
there, when, opening his eyes, he beheld the figure of the
anchorite, wild and savage-looking as we have described him,
standing by his bedside, and pressing his right hand upon his
breast, while he held a small silver lamp in the other.
"Be silent," said the hermit, as the prostrate knight looked up
in surprise; "I have that to say to you which yonder infidel must
not hear."
These words he spoke in the French language, and not in the
lingua franca, or compound of Eastern and European dialects,
which had hitherto been used amongst them.
"Arise," he continued, "put on thy mantle; speak not, but tread
lightly, and follow me.


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