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THE LIGHT PRINCESS. |
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her own room, and lay him in her bed, and light a fire, and send for the doctors,
" But the lake, your highness ! " said the chamberlain, who, roused by the noise, came in, in his nightcap.
" Go and drown yourself in it! " she said.
This was the last rudeness of which the princess was ever guilty ; and one must allow that she had good cause to feel provoked with the lord chamberlain.
Had it been the king himself, he would have fared no better. But both he and the queen were fast asleep. And the chamberlain went back to his bed* Somehow, the doctors never came. So the princess and her old nurse were left with the prince. But the old nurse was a wise woman, and knew what to do.
They tried everything for a long time without success. The princess was nearly distracted |
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