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Excerpt from The Assassins: A Romance of the Crusades
It was not the juice of the grape alone that had been given to the Assassins, but spices had been added and also haschisch. The potent drug began to work; dull eyes kindled, a strange exaltation possessed them. Their senses were quickened, they felt their strength swell, and they shrieked their battle-songs, clashing their scimitars on their shields. The visages of many were seamed with scars, which changed color as the wine fired their blood, and they boasted of their wounds, while those who had no mark to point to dyed their forearms in the lees so as to look more fierce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
