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THE LIGHT PRINCESS. |
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to laugh and crow ; while the nurse gave a start and a smothered cry, for she thought she was struck with paralysis : she could not feel the baby in her arms. But she clasped it tight and said nothing.
The mischief was done. |
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SHE CAN'T BE OURS.
Her atrocious aunt had deprived the child of all her gravity. If you ask me how this was effected, I answer, "In the easiest way in the world. She had only to destroy gravitation." For the princess was a philosopher, and knew all the ins and outs of the laws of gravitation as well as the ins and outs of her boot-lace. And |
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