Mont-Fitchet

The lower part of this ample apartment was filled with squires and yeomen, who made way not without some difficulty for Rebecca, attended by the Preceptor and Mont-Fitchet, and followed by the guard of halberdiers, to move forward to the seat appointed for her.

Ivanhoe 1892

Beaumanoir turned to Mont-Fitchet with a grim smile.

Ivanhoe 1892

` ` There is yet spirit in him, '' said Malvoisin apart to Mont-Fitchet, ` ` were it well directed --- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

` ` Away, then, '' said Mont-Fitchet; ` ` at noon the affair will proceed.

Ivanhoe 1892

The herald went to the chair in which Rebecca was seated, and Bois-Guilbert suddenly turning his horse's head toward that end of the lists, in spite of hints on either side from Malvoisin and Mont-Fitchet, was by the side of Rebecca's chair as soon as the herald.

Ivanhoe 1892

Mont-Fitchet; ` ` and, Albert, I will be upright with thee --- wizard or not, it were better that this miserable damsel die, than that Brian de Bois-Guilbert should be lost to the Order, or the Order divided by internal dissension.

Ivanhoe 1892

He left the apartment hastily as he uttered these words, and the Preceptor followed, to watch and confirm him in his resolution; for in Bois-Guilbert's fame he had himself a strong interest, expecting much advantage from his being one day at the head of the Order, not to mention the preferment of which Mont-Fitchet had given him hopes, on condition he would forward the condemnation of the unfortunate Rebecca.

Ivanhoe 1892

` ` No, Mont-Fitchet, '' answered the stern old man --- ` ` it must be sharp and sudden --- the Order is on the crisis of its fate.

Ivanhoe 1892

Mont-Fitchet took the letter from his Superior, and was about to peruse it.

Ivanhoe 1892

= Mont-Fitchet = (_Sir Conrade_), a preceptor of the Knights Templar.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853