The Knights of the Cross - or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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"I don't wonder. I thought she was an angel from heaven and I can't look at her enough. What do they call her?" "Have you not heard? Danusia. Her father is Jurand of Spychow, a _comes_[18] mighty and gallant." "Hej! Such a girl human eyes never saw before!" "Everybody loves her for her singing and her beauty." "And who is her knight?" "She is only a child yet!" Further conversation was stopped by Danusia's singing. Zbyszko looked at her fair hair, her uplifted head, her half-closed eyes, and at her whole figure lighted by the glare of the wax candles and by the glare of the moonbeams entering through the windows; and he wondered more and more. It seemed to him now, that he had seen her before; but he could not remember whether it was in a dream, or somewhere in Krakow on the pane of a church window. And again he touched the courtier and asked in a low voice: "Then she is from your court?" "Her mother came from Litwa with the princess, Anna Danuta, who married her to Count Jurand of Spychow. She was pretty and belonged to a powerful family; the princess liked her better than any of the other young girls |
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