The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 5

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Conner & Cooke, 1833

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Pagina 8 - Leopard continued to fix his eyes attentively on the yet distant cluster of palm-trees, it seemed to him as if some object was moving among them. The distant form separated itself from the trees, which partly hid its motions, and advanced towards the knight with a speed which soon shewed a mounted horseman, whom his turban, long spear, and green caftan floating in the wind, on his nearer approach, shewed to be a Saracen cavalier. "In the desert," saith an Eastern proverb,

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