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Du Pelerin, Or The Profession.
from their tenderest years , it could not be but that the seeds of affection thus early sown , should have ripened into a fuller passion with maturer age ; and that the bud which Du Pelerin had thus marked developing itself , should have been prized by him as the chosen of his breast above all the other flowers of the earth . But fate forbade the fulfilment of his wishes . The powerful family of the fair object of his affections rejected the idea of a connexion with a cavalier without
fortune or high influence ; and as the passion of Du Pelerin graduall y developed itself , he was excluded from all intercourse with the object of his devotion . Of too high a spirit to brook opposition , accompanied , as he felt , b y personal indignities , and knowing well , that however attached , and faithful to himself , was the heart of her to whom he had given his own , her feelings of filial duty never would have allowed her to act
in utter contempt and defiance of her friends , Du Pelerin resolved , with a struggle , to sever himself from a scene where he experienced so much heart-felt bitterness . Nor was he long in deciding the direction he should take . Ever since that important epoch in the East
" When the peers Of Europe , liy the bold Godfredo led . Against the usurping infidel , displayed The blessed cross , and won the Holy Land . " Palestine had been the great object of attraction and interest to all enthusiastic or venturous spirits . Often had Du Pelerin when a stripling in his father ' s hall , listened to the tales of the pilgrims who had returned from the Holy Land , with the palm-branches , plucked from the gardens of Jerichoin their bosom ; and ever did his boyish heart
, beat most , when they told of the hair-breadth escapes they had made from savage beasts , or yet more monster men ; and how they had miraculously been preserved from both by the heaven-sent sword of some chivalrous warrior of the religious and military orders . The wandering troubadour who sung of Christian knight and Saracen fast locked in mortal struggle was dearest to him of all the sons of song ; and these early admirations and aspirations after fields of danger
and of death formed the dream of his early years , which was now about to be realised . Palestine was the place whither he was bent to devote his future energies and exertions ; and , deeming it expedient and useful , stranger as he was , to join some society of distingushed character , he had sought for admission into the celebrated Brotherhood of the religious and military Order of the Templars . At the period of the Kiiisrht-nreceptor ' s entrance to the chapel and
Grand Chapter , the novice , Du Pelerin , was left , for the time , to his own meditations in an adjoining apartment , set apart for aspirants . As was natural on s > momentous an occasion in his life , the mind of the neophite was agitated by various emotions . He felt that he was taking his last look upon the world , —such as it had been hitherto to him—and that he was entering upon a new and untried state of existence , wherein he would be called upon to renounce many feelings
and affections that were once interwoven with his being , and submit to many penances and privations , without even a wish or a will of his own . But his pride and his spirit placed before him the prospects of glory and of good , which he might be destined to achieve ; and he had composed himself into a very firm mood when the Conducting preceptor and his two assistants entered . Although previous to the present , he had been subjected to a long , preparatory scrutiny and admonition by the preceptor , the whole three
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Du Pelerin, Or The Profession.
from their tenderest years , it could not be but that the seeds of affection thus early sown , should have ripened into a fuller passion with maturer age ; and that the bud which Du Pelerin had thus marked developing itself , should have been prized by him as the chosen of his breast above all the other flowers of the earth . But fate forbade the fulfilment of his wishes . The powerful family of the fair object of his affections rejected the idea of a connexion with a cavalier without
fortune or high influence ; and as the passion of Du Pelerin graduall y developed itself , he was excluded from all intercourse with the object of his devotion . Of too high a spirit to brook opposition , accompanied , as he felt , b y personal indignities , and knowing well , that however attached , and faithful to himself , was the heart of her to whom he had given his own , her feelings of filial duty never would have allowed her to act
in utter contempt and defiance of her friends , Du Pelerin resolved , with a struggle , to sever himself from a scene where he experienced so much heart-felt bitterness . Nor was he long in deciding the direction he should take . Ever since that important epoch in the East
" When the peers Of Europe , liy the bold Godfredo led . Against the usurping infidel , displayed The blessed cross , and won the Holy Land . " Palestine had been the great object of attraction and interest to all enthusiastic or venturous spirits . Often had Du Pelerin when a stripling in his father ' s hall , listened to the tales of the pilgrims who had returned from the Holy Land , with the palm-branches , plucked from the gardens of Jerichoin their bosom ; and ever did his boyish heart
, beat most , when they told of the hair-breadth escapes they had made from savage beasts , or yet more monster men ; and how they had miraculously been preserved from both by the heaven-sent sword of some chivalrous warrior of the religious and military orders . The wandering troubadour who sung of Christian knight and Saracen fast locked in mortal struggle was dearest to him of all the sons of song ; and these early admirations and aspirations after fields of danger
and of death formed the dream of his early years , which was now about to be realised . Palestine was the place whither he was bent to devote his future energies and exertions ; and , deeming it expedient and useful , stranger as he was , to join some society of distingushed character , he had sought for admission into the celebrated Brotherhood of the religious and military Order of the Templars . At the period of the Kiiisrht-nreceptor ' s entrance to the chapel and
Grand Chapter , the novice , Du Pelerin , was left , for the time , to his own meditations in an adjoining apartment , set apart for aspirants . As was natural on s > momentous an occasion in his life , the mind of the neophite was agitated by various emotions . He felt that he was taking his last look upon the world , —such as it had been hitherto to him—and that he was entering upon a new and untried state of existence , wherein he would be called upon to renounce many feelings
and affections that were once interwoven with his being , and submit to many penances and privations , without even a wish or a will of his own . But his pride and his spirit placed before him the prospects of glory and of good , which he might be destined to achieve ; and he had composed himself into a very firm mood when the Conducting preceptor and his two assistants entered . Although previous to the present , he had been subjected to a long , preparatory scrutiny and admonition by the preceptor , the whole three