In the pen that held the captives of the lesser raids conducted by Biskaine sat an Andalusian girl of a beauty entirely Spanish. Her face was of the warm pallor of ivory, her massed hair of an ebony black, her eyebrows were finely penciled, and her eyes of deepest and softest brown. She was dressed in the becoming garb of Castilian peasant, the folded kerchief of red and yellow above her bodice leaving bare the glories of her neck. She was very pale, and her eyes were wild in their look, but this detracted nothing from her beauty. She had attracted the Jew's notice, and it is not impossible that there may have stirred in him a desire to avenge upon her some of the cruel wrongs, some of the rackings, burning, confiscations, and banishment suffered by the men of his race at the hands of the men of hers. He may have bethought him of invaded ghettos, of Jewish maidens ravished, and Jewish childern butchered in the name of God those Spanish Christians worshipped, for there was something almost of contemptuous fierceness in his dark eyes and in the hand he flung out to indicate her.... Keywords: The Sea Hawk, Rafael Sabatini, Andalusian girl, Garb of Castillian, Hew, Ghettos, God, Spanish Christians,

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