Therefore she turned her joyful face toward the girl.
“Danusia! Danusia! Do you wish to have your own knight?”
The fair-haired Danusia after jumping three times in her red shoes, seized the princess by the neck and began to scream with joy, as though they were promising her some pleasure permitted to the older people only.
“I wish, I wish——!”
The princess’ eyes were filled with tears from laughing and the whole court laughed with her; then the lady said to Zbyszko:
“Well, make your vow! Make your vow! What will you promise her?”
But Zbyszko, who preserved his seriousness undisturbed amidst the laughter, said with dignity, while still kneeling:
“I promise that as soon as I reach Krakow, I will hang my spear on the door of the inn, and on it I will put a card, which a student in writi
