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Princesses Are There In Own Credulous Wa...
" I pray you what did such and such a one say of me ?" But the roses answered
" Do you not know that , what is said under us must never be revealed ?"
" The fountain will tell me then , " said the princess . " No / ' replied the fountain" I am in such a constant whirl
that I cannot attend to anything , hut my own business . " , So at last the princess went to her godmother .
" Godmother , " said the princess , "I wish to know what _overy one thinks of me ?"
"It is a silly wish , " said the fairy , nevertheless I will help " Th you at , I if do you " reall answered y want the to princess know . " .
So the fairy , took a little gold side-comb from her pocket and gave " You it to have the princess onlto . put this in your hair" said she" and
you will know what y people ' s thoughts are just , as if they , were speaking So the next them day aloud the . " princess walked on the terrace in front
was of the a palace very fine , and day a great , and many they peop bowed le walked and curtsied there too to , for the it
princess when they met her , and she heard them saying _, loud enoug " How h for beautifu her to l hear the , princess looks to day !"
Then she put the little gold side-comb into her hair , and it seemed as if she could see into their hearts , and though they
" said She , " would How look beautifu nothing l , " with without their her lips , fine yet clothes their hearts . " u Fine said ,
feathers make fine birds . " " My Sophia and Laura are twice as handsome . " " What a trouble it is to have to bow and curtsey
to a little bit of a thing like that . " "I . hear she's a great herself plague a to great all the deal m better aids of than honour we are . " but "I who daresay would she buy thinks her
fine clothes if we did not subscribe to keep , the old king on the throne ? " " I hear she is as silla irl as there is in the
kingdom . " " And very conceited . " y " Wh g at a thing it is to have a good inion of oneself . " u How cross she looks ! " " Why
I do believe op she's going to have a regular good cry ! " " Peevish little thing , when there is nothing to cry about . " All this was
in their hearts , but their lips kept still repeating , How beautiful And ! " the " How ch littl arming e princess !" was indeed readto cry when she
found the poor people had such a bad opinion y of her , and she wondered how they knew that she ran pins into the arms of the
maids of honour as they sat spinning , or that she was proud of well her fine dressed clothes as , and herself looked . " I down dare upon those those littl who e were birds not have so say
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/62/
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