The Knights of the Cross - or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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blue eyes were laughing at the kneeling Zbyszko, and she could not help
moving her feet from joy. "Give him your gloves," said the princess. Danusia pulled off her gloves and handed them to Zbyszko who pressed them with great respect to his lips, and said: "I will fix them on my helmet and woe to the one who stretches his hands for them!" Then he kissed Danusia's hands and feet and arose. Then his dignity left him, and great joy filled his heart because from that time the whole court would consider him a mature man. Therefore shaking Danusia's gloves, he began to shout, half mirthfully, half angrily: "Come, you dog-brothers with peacock's crests, come!" But at that moment the same monk who had been there before entered the inn, and with him two superior ones. The servants of the monastery carried willow baskets which contained bottles of wine and some tidbits. The monks greeted the princess and again reproached her because she had not gone directly to the abbey. She explained to them again, that having slept during the day, she was traveling at night for coolness; therefore she did not need any sleep; and as she did not wish to awaken the worthy abbot nor the respectable monks, she preferred to stop in an inn to stretch her limbs. After many courteous words, it was finally agreed, that after matins and mass in the morning, the princess with her court would breakfast and rest |
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