Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 526
f this distant andmountainous land, and I would be able tolive comfortably and at ease except for theunfortunate fact that my nearest neighbor,King Nabob the Ninth, who reigns over Pre-tigalia, has a daughter who is the most beau-tiful princess in the world. Why do you mind that? was my ques-tion.… … SHE S NOT SO EASY TO GET ALONG WITH AS THE KING Why, whenever princes come to court hisdaughter, Princess Sapphira, he always makesit a condition that the prince must first bringhim the Great Blue Sapphire as the price ofhis daughters hand. You understand? 1060 THE KING OF THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAINS…
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