text:  "You dealt upon them the vengeance due?" "Alas! sir the vengeance they were mutually dealing had already cruelly injured the helpless object of the contest! Snatched from the arms of the Burgundian soldiers by the fierce arm of a German musketeer a deadly blow aimed at the ruffian against whom she was wildly but vainly defending herself; had lighted on one of the fairest of human forms! Cloven to the bone the blood of this innocent being scarce past the age of childhood was streaming on her assailants; and when rushing in I proclaimed in the name of God and of your highness quarter and peace it was an insensible body I rescued from the grasp of pollution!" "Unhappy Ulrica!" faltered the prince "and oh! my more unhappy kinsman!" "Not altogether hopeless " resumed Rinaldo; "and apprized by the sorrowful ejaculations of her female companions when relieved from their personal fears of the high condition of the victim I bore the insensible lady to the hospital of Dalem; and the utmost skill of our surgeons was employed upon her wounds