text:  "Hat in hand stood the prince his eyes fixed upon the precious freight and those of Ulrica fixed in return upon her new and pleasant acquaintance; when Jesu Maria!--as every thing that is evil ordained it --behold the newly-shod palfrey of the pretty Brabanconne irritated perhaps by the clumsy veterinaryship of a village smithy began suddenly to rear and plunge and set at defiance the old dunderhead by whom it was held!--The ass of a ferryman in his eagerness to lend his aid let go his oar into the stream; and between the awkwardness of some and the rashness of others in a moment the whole party were carried round by the eddy of the Dyle!--The next and Ulrica was struggling in the waters"-- "And the next in the arms of the prince who had plunged in to her rescue!"-- "You know him too well not to foresee all that follows