Chapter I: Front Matter

DEEDS OF DARING
DONE BY GIRLS

DEEDS _of_ DARING DONE BY GIRLS

BY N. HUDSON MOORE

AUTHOR OF “CHILDREN OF OTHER DAYS,” “THE OLD CHINA BOOK,” “THE OLD
FURNITURE BOOK,” “THE LACE BOOK,” “OLD PEWTER, BRASS, COPPER, AND
SHEFFIELD PLATE,” “THE COLLECTOR’S MANUAL,” ETC.

_With Illustrations in Colour_
BY ARCHIE GUNN

_NEW YORK_ · FREDERICK A.
STOKES COMPANY · _PUBLISHERS_

_Copyright, 1906_
BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
_All rights reserved_

This edition published in October, 1906

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

AN OPEN LETTER

Do not think, dear girls, that because you are girls you may not have as much courage as your brothers. I believe that quite as stout hearts beat beneath muslin frocks as under stuff jackets. When you have finished reading this book about your sisters, perhaps—if you do not already—you will agree with me, and think that it needs only occasion to call out the necessary courage. I have been asked which one of these heroines I think the most daring, but—oh dear—it would never do to have a favourite, would it? So I leave them to you, and that you will enjoy learning of their trials and triumphs is the wish of your friend,

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE ROBE OF THE DUCHESS 1

THE PRINCESS WINS 53

DEFENCE OF CASTLE DANGEROUS 96

THE PEARL NECKLACE 129

DICEY LANGSTON 220

THE MAID OF ZARAGOZA 265

ILLUSTRATIONS

“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

THE ROBE OF THE DUCHESS
_As told by Jehan, her Page in the Year of Grace 1392_