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Updated: September 3, 2025
When the Prince and Princess went for a drive, the Lady Emmelina sat up stiffly between them; when the Professors came to give the children their lessons, they found that they had to give them also to a little lady in a white silk frock with rows and rows of little frills, who stared at them solemnly with her large, impassive blue eyes, and never answered a word to any of their questions.
"If you will come and play cricket with me, I will let you have the first innings," he said to her in despair one sunny afternoon. "It is far too rough a game for the Lady Emmelina," answered Princess Pansy, shaking her head. "Then choose any game you like, only do come and play with me," begged the Prince.
"Oh," cried Prince Perfection, "I will never be cross again, if you will help me to find the Lady Emmelina." "Then why did you hide her in the first place?" asked the grasshopper. The Prince looked foolish. "Because I had no one to play with," he said. "If you do find her," continued the grasshopper, "do you think the Princess will play with you again?" "Oh, no," sighed the Prince.
This does not matter in the least, however, for they are not likely to want his help again; the Lady Emmelina is always kept in her proper place now, and the Princess is no longer bewitched by her. It is only reasonable to suppose that the Fairy Zigzag had something to do with the change in the Lady Emmelina, but the Fairy Zigzag says that she never troubled herself about it at all.
Nothing was turning out as he had expected; for, instead of being ready to play with him again, the little Princess was far too miserable to think of playing at all. He tried all day long to coax her into a good humour; but bedtime came, and he had not won a single smile from her. It was then that he made up his mind to go out into the world and find the Lady Emmelina.
"Do you pretend you've never seen her, The dainty Lady Emmelina? I pray you let the drawbridge down, I'm ten years old and I can frown! I mean to find her here's my hand! I want the doll from Fairyland.
"You will not cry any more, now that you have the Lady Emmelina to play with, will you?" said Prince Perfection, who, strange to say, did not feel in the least bit jealous of the Lady Emmelina as long as she lay face downwards on the floor. "I don't think I want to play with the Lady Emmelina much," answered Princess Pansy. "I think I would rather play with you.
To be sure, he had five hundred and fifty-four birthday presents; but what consolation could they afford him when he was still without a steamboat that went by real steam? The Lady Emmelina was the cause of all his misfortunes, and he could not bear the Lady Emmelina.
It was in vain that the Prince offered to give her his five hundred and fifty-four birthday presents if she would only stop crying: the Princess wanted her doll from Fairyland, and nothing but her doll from Fairyland would console her. Every one who loved the little Princess and that was every one in the palace began looking for the Lady Emmelina; but no one succeeded in finding a trace of her.
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