Ivanhoe-Chapters 9-10

Flashback: The Disinherited Knight won the tournament, and was to choose the Queen of Beauty.
He rode up and down the lists, looking at the faces of the ladies. Some blushed, some averted their gaze, some laughed, and some drew their veils over their faces, having had the honor many times before. At last, he laid the crown at the feet of the Lady Rowena to choose her. Prince John was rather surprised at the choice, but he came into the lists with his train and told Lady Rowena that she had been chosen, and asked her if she would not assume her position as queen of the tournament, and come to the banquet with her father and friends. Cedric replied for her in Saxon that she did not speak the Norman tongue, and neither he or Athelstane practiced any but the ways of their fathers, so they declined the invitation to the banquet. He then put the cornet on her head to say that she accepted the temporary authority that was placed on her.

The Disinherited Knight would not reveal his name, and he also declined to come to the banquet. People hazarded guesses as to his name, and Prince John had thought that it might be his brother, Richard the Lion-Heart. But it was not. Richard was much bigger and stronger.

Then the Disinherited Knight went to his pavilion, but would suffer none but his squire to tend him. This was none other than our friend Gurth, who played the  part of a Norman squire rather well. The knight ate after Gurth helped to remove his armor, and soon the squires of the vanquished knights came to redeem the armor and horses of their masters. For the armor and horses of all the knights except Sir Brian de Bois-Gulibert, he took 50 zecchins each, but he would not accept the armor of the Templar, for they were not done with their feud. The squire assured him that the Templar  would never wear the armor or ride the horse again, so the knight bestowed it on him. Then after they had gone, the Disinherited Knight sent Gurth to Issac to pay him for the horse and armor. Gurth paid Issac  80 zecchins, and Rebecca secretly gave him 100. The knight had given Gurth 10, so with the 20 that were his after he gave the knight the 80 for what he had paid Issac. So he started back to the pavilion.

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