The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 194
that you are mine; but oh, you are pass-ing beautiful! Papa, called the princess, this is quite dread-ful. Quick, take off that ugly soldiers coat andtell him who we are and all about it! The king, starting as if from a dream, threwoff the rough coat and hat and stepped forthinto the beam of… … Then thou didst not know that the hand ofthe princess is offered to the first contented manwho enters the palace? No, your Majesty; I knew it not.Then know it now, and know, too, that thouart the man. To thee I give my daughter, to-gether with half my kingdom. No, no—not a word. Thou deservest her.…
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