JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND: THE GIRL OF THE LAND OF FOGS, A.D. 1414.
But before the young Otto could return an angry answer, Jacqueline had interfered.
"Did you expect me to give you a chance to destroy me and poison Jacqueline's mind?
All the hot blood of her ancestors flamed in wrath as young Jacqueline heard this reply of the rebel lord.
Jacqueline's eye caught the flutter of the broad banner of the house of Arkell that waved over the rebel camp.
"Tell the Countess Jacqueline," he said to the knight of Leyenburg, "that the honor of her hand I cannot accept.
The story of Jacqueline of Holland is one of the most romantic that has come down to us from those romantic days of the knights.
Then the voice of Jacqueline rang out fresh and clear as, standing with her hand buried in the lion's tawny mane, she raised her face to the startled galleries.