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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Scott, Sir Walter

Scott, Sir Walter
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Ivanhoe: Chapters 23 - 28

Chapter Twenty-Three

The best quarters in the castle had been reserved for Rowena, who was the
original object of De Bracy's exploit. De Bracy, dressed in the most elegant
fashion of the time, visited her about noontime to plead his cause. For the
occasion he spoke in the extravagant diction of the courtly lover. She was not
his prisoner, whatever the outward appearance of their relationship. Instead,
it was he who awaited his doom from her. If he had been excessive in his
action it was only for love of the "queen of my heart, ...

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