The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 193
Doesnot your majestj remark the pattern and thecolors ? And they pointed to the empty loom,for they thought that the others could see thestuff. Whats this? thought the emperor. Ican see nothing at all! That is terrible. Am Istupid ? Am I not fit to be emperor ? Thatwould be the most dreadful thing… … The whole suite whom he had with him lookedand looked, and saw nothing, any more than therest; but, like the emperor they said, That iipretty! and counseled him to wear the splendidnew clothes for the first time at the great proces-sion that was presently to take place. It issplendid, excellent!…
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