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The Princess and - We Shall See Who |
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'Oh, no!' answered the princess. 'I will explain it all to you when you are older,' the lady went on. 'But you will be able to understand this much now: I came here to take care of you.' 'Is it long since you came? Was it yesterday? Or was it today, because it was so wet that I couldn't get out?' 'I've been here ever since you came yourself.' 'What a long time!' said the princess. 'I don't remember it at all.' 'No. I suppose not.' 'But I never saw you before.' 'No. But you shall see me again.' 'Do you live in this room always?' 'I don't sleep in it. I sleep on the opposite side of the landing. I sit here most of the day.' 'I shouldn't like it. My nursery is much prettier. You must be a queen too, if you are my great big grand-mother.' 'Yes, I am a queen.' 'Where is your crown, then?' 'In my bedroom.' 'I should like to see it.' 'You shall some day - not today.' 'I wonder why nursie never told me.' 'Nursie doesn't know. She never saw me.' 'But somebody knows that you are in the house?' 'No; nobody.' 'How do you get your dinner, then?' 'I keep poultry - of a sort.' 'Where do you keep them?' 'I will show you.' 'And who makes the chicken broth for you?' 'I never kill any of MY chickens.' 'Then I can't understand.' |
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