“See, Clemence, a good omen. Look at the new moon” _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
“None looking on my stately Duchess would deem that she
had but fifteen years” 48
“On, for the love of the Daughter of Holland, and death
to those that deny her!” 86
“I have commanded this fort, Monsieur, during the
absence of my father” 124
“Coward, shoot now if you dare!” 260
“What are you doing here, my girl?” 288
DEEDS OF DARING
DONE BY GIRLS
[Illustration]
THE ROBE OF THE DUCHESS
_As told by Jehan, her Page in the Year of Grace 1392_
I
“’Tis not so,” quoth she, “and you know it”; and with that she fetched
me a buffet on the ear.
Now, when the other pages saw me bested like that by a damsel, even
though she were my Lady, they roared and girded at me so loud that I
liked to have choked with rage.