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THE LIGHT PRINCESS. |
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This last answer quite discomfited his Majesty, who turned on his heel, and betook himself to his counting-house again. But he was not half-way towards it, when the voice of his queen overtook him.
"And it's a bad thing to be light-haired," screamed she, determined to have more last words, now that her spirit was roused.
The queen's hair was black as night; and the king's had been, and his daughter's was, golden as morning. But it was not this reflection on his hair that arrested him ; it was the double use of the word light. For the king hated all witticisms, and punning especially. And besides, he could not tell whether the queen meant light-hatred or light-heired ; for why might she not aspirate her vowels when she was ex-asperated herself?
He turned upon his other heel, and rejoined her. She looked angry still, because she knew |
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