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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEILA, COMPLETE *** Produced by David Widger



LEILA OR, THE SIEGE OF GRANADA



By Edward Bulwer Lytton





CONTENTS



BOOK I.

CHAPTER I. THE ENCHANTER AND THE WARRIOR.

CHAPTER II. THE KING WITHIN HIS PALACE.

CHAPTER III. THE LOVERS.

CHAPTER IV. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER V. AMBITION DISTORTED INTO VICE BY LAW.

CHAPTER VI. THE LION IN THE NET


BOOK. II.

CHAPTER I. THE ROYAL TENT OF SPAIN.—THE KING AND THE DOMINICAN

CHAPTER II. THE AMBUSH, THE STRIFE, AND THE CAPTURE.

CHAPTER III. THE HERO IN THE POWER OF THE DREAMER.

CHAPTER IV. A FULLER VIEW OF THE CHARACTER OF BOABDIL.—MUZA IN THE GARDENS

CHAPTER V. BOABDIL’S RECONCILIATION WITH HIS PEOPLE.

CHAPTER V. LEILA.—HER NEW LOVER.—PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST INQUISITOR OF SPAIN

CHAPTER VII. THE TRIBUNAL AND THE MIRACLE


BOOK III.

CHAPTER I. ISABEL AND THE JEWISH MAIDEN.

CHAPTER II. THE TEMPTATION OF THE JEWESS

CHAPTER III. THE HOUR AND THE MAN


BOOK IV.

CHAPTER. I. LEILA IN THE CASTLE—THE SIEGE.

CHAPTER II. ALMAMEN’S PROPOSED ENTERPRISE.—THE THREE ISRAELITES

CHAPTER III. THE FUGITIVE AND THE MEETING

CHAPTER IV. ALMAMEN HEARS AND SEES, BUT REFUSES TO BELIEVE

CHAPTER V. IN THE FERMENT OF GREAT EVENTS THE DREGS RISE.

CHAPTER VI. BOADBIL’S RETURN.—THE REAPPEARANCE OF GRANADA.

CHAPTER VII. THE CONFLAGRATION.—THE MAJESTY OF AN INDIVIDUAL PASSION


BOOK V.

CHAPTER I. THE GREAT BATTLE.

CHAPTER II. THE NOVICE.

CHAPTER III. THE PAUSE BETWEEN DEFEAT AND SURRENDER.

CHAPTER IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY HORSEMAN.

CHAPTER V. THE SACRIFICE.

CHAPTER VI. THE RETURN—THE RIOT—THE TREACHERY—AND THE DEATH.

CHAPTER VII. THE END.





BOOK I.





CHAPTER I. THE ENCHANTER AND THE WARRIOR.

It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada.

The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched with a hazy light the snow-capped summits of the Sierra Nevada, contrasting the verdure and luxuriance which no devastation of man could utterly sweep from the beautiful vale below.

In the streets of the Moorish city many a group still lingered. Some, as if unconscious of the beleaguering war without, were listening in quiet indolence to the strings of the Moorish lute, or the lively tale of an Arabian improrvisatore; others were conversing with such eager and animated gestures, as no ordinary excitement could wring from the stately calm habitual to every oriental people. But the more public places in which gathered these different groups, only the more impressively heightened the desolate and solemn repose that brooded over the rest of the city.

At this time, a man, with downcast eyes, and arms folded within the sweeping gown which descended to his feet, was seen passing through the streets, alone, and apparently unobservant of all around him. Yet this indifference was by no means shared by the struggling crowds through which, from time to time, he musingly swept.

“God is great!” said one man; “it is the Enchanter Almamen.”

“He hath locked up the manhood of Boabdil el Chico with the key of his spells,” quoth another, stroking his beard; “I would curse him, if I dared.”

“But they say that he hath promised that when man fails, the genii will fight for Granada,” observed a third, doubtingly.

“Allah Akbar! what is, is! what shall be, shall be!” said a fourth, with

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