ders. What frightened the princess the more was her find-ing a man living here in the same desert where she hadlived herself three years without seeing a single soul. The hermit and the princess looked at each other longand earnestly without saying a word. At length, however,the old man said, Tell… … Ml c -a c cd OJ JC 4-> rt 4-1 5C i Caj THE THREE SUITORS 139 some wild pears, and when the princess had taken someof them she began to tell him who she was, and how shecame in that desert. She said, I am a kings daughter,and once, many years ago, three young nobles of myfathers court asked the…
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