Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 · Boston : Hall and Locks · leaf 274
rgot that it would take nearlyas long to read it over as it hadtaken to write it out. So whenthe moment of the christeningarrived the king — to whom thetask had been entrusted — hadbarely reached the end of the sec-ond page and his tongue was trip-ping with fatigue and haste as he repeatedthe usual… … 238 The Story Teller that the fairies asked on the first page had alreadyarrived and were waiting impatiently in the great halland grumbling that no one was there to receive them.Thereupon he gave up the list in despair and hurried togreet those whom he had succeeded in asking, implor-ing their…
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