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Updated: June 16, 2025


'We have been deceived, he said, 'and it will cost me my life. And he leaned so heavily on the envoy that Becasigue feared he was going to faint, and hastily laid him on the floor. For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but as soon as he revived the lady in waiting made herself heard. 'Oh, my lovely princess, why did we ever leave home? cried she.

Becasigue was glad enough to do as he was bid, and in a few minutes the old woman returned with a basket brimming over with oranges and grapes. 'If your friend has been ill he should not pass the night in the forest, said she. 'I have room in my hut tiny enough, it is true; but better than nothing, and to that you are both heartily welcome.

Yet, even so, I cannot bring myself to hate him. These words, low though they were spoken, reached Becasigue, who could hardly believe his ears. He stood silent for a moment; then, crossing to the window out of which the prince was gazing, he took his arm and led him across the room.

So when Becasigue, surround by his train, made a formal request that the princess Desiree might be given in marriage to his master's son, the king replied that he was much honoured, and would gladly give his consent; but that no one could even see the princess till her fifteenth birthday, as the spell laid upon her in her cradle by a spiteful fairy, would not cease to work till that was past.

'Ah, how clever you are, cried the queen, clasping her in her arms. And she hurried away to tell the king. 'What a wife our prince will have! said Becasigue bowing low; 'but I must hasten back with the tidings, and to prepare the underground chamber for the princess. And so he took his leave. In a few days the carriage commanded by the princess was ready.

Though Cerisette and her mother could of course see nothing of what was going on outside, they heard plainly the shouts of welcome from the crowds along the streets. The carriage stopped at length in the vast hall which Becasigue had prepared for the reception of the princess.

Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood, till at last the prince grew so tired, that he lay down under a tree, and told Becasigue that he had better go in search of food, and of some place where they could sleep. Becasigue had not gone very far, when a turn of the path brought him face to face with the old woman who was feeding her doves before her cottage.

On his arrival at the palace Becasigue pleaded his young master's cause as fervently as the king his father could have done, and entreated that the princess might be consulted in the matter. The queen hastened to the marble tower, and told her daughter of the sad state of the prince. Des the prince without risking the doom pronounced over her by the wicked fairy.

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