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Updated: May 31, 2025
These things were all secret, but the air was tense with them. We were told we should know definitely if it were peace or war when King Nikola returned from Petersburg in February. Prince Danilo at the same time went to Sofia. We were told to be ready for war in April.
"I feel as though some one were looking at me." When Danilo saw the actual face of the enchanted maiden, it was all he could do to keep from crying aloud. She was so unutterably beautiful that he almost swooned away in ecstacy. Presently the maiden went to bed and fell into an uneasy sleep. The light of a single candle shed a faint radiance over her face making it lovelier than ever.
A fierce blood-feud which lasted in effect till a few years ago, arose between him and the Gjurashkovitches. Marko Gjurashkovitch, one of the richest and handsomest of the headmen, dared, during the Prince's absence in France, to marry the widow of Pero Petrovitch, whom Danilo had meant to bestow on his favourite Petar Vukotitch.
At that Peerless Beauty laughed loud and scornfully until the castle rang with her merriment. "Seize that wretch!" she said, pointing to Danilo. "Tie his hands and drive him out in exile to the Donkeys' Paradise! Let him stay there until he has another treasure to present me!" So they drove Danilo out to the wilderness and left him there.
Through all the long hours of night Danilo stood perfectly still, gazing at her, afraid almost to breathe lest he should disturb her. "Unless I win her for wife," he thought to himself, "I shall nevermore be happy!" When morning came the maiden awoke with a start and said: "There's some one looking at me! Who is it? Who is it?" "It's only your poor Danilo," a voice answered. "Danilo?
Danilo handed her the pitcher and, quick as a flash, she rubbed it. There was a clap of thunder, a company of soldiers appeared, and their captain saluting her respectfully said: "What does the mistress of the pitcher want?" "Nay!" cried Danilo, "it is I who own the pitcher, not she!" "We are the servants," the captain said, "of whoever holds the pitcher."
He sent two cunning agents to Ragusa to pretend to the Russian that Montenegro was in a state of unrest, and that they could overthrow Danilo and re-establish Russian influence if they could have the 5,000 ducats. To what more laudable end could they be expended? But the Russian was a yet more wily fox and the plan failed.
This time Danilo gave her some of the white grape conserve and as soon as she had eaten it all the horns fell off and her head shimmered and shone as of old with her beautiful hair. Then Danilo told her who he was and at once the maiden sought to ensnare him again with her wiles. "What a wonderful man you are, Danilo!
When the old woman saw that Danilo was determined, she gave up pleading with him and pointed out a faint trail in the forest which, she told him, would lead him to Peerless Beauty's castle. He slept that night in the old woman's hut and early next morning set out on the forest trail. By afternoon he reached the castle. "What do you want?" the guards demanded roughly.
The records of Danilo and Petar are such that they are not likely to succeed their father. Prince Danilo in vain refused the spiritual headship of the land. No Petrovitch seems destined to be followed by his son, though their dynasty is the older, and their hands are not so stained with murder as those of the rival dynasty. Nikola is not wholly blameworthy.
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