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"There is some dreadful mistake, sir," said Prigio to the king. "You know as well as I do that the youngest son has always succeeded, up to now. But I entertain great hopes of Enrico!" And he grinned; for he fancied it was all nonsense, and that there were no Firedrakes. Enrico was present when Prigio was consoling the king in this unfeeling way.
Meanwhile, Prince Prigio had to suffer many unpleasant things. The queen, who did not believe in Firedrakes, alone took his side. He was not only avoided by all, but he had most disagreeable scenes with his own cousins, Lady Molinda and Lady Kathleena. In the garden Lady Molinda met him walking alone, and did not bow to him.
Then when she asked him why, and what good she had done him, he told her all the story; and how, before he fell in love with her, he didn't believe in fairies, or Firedrakes, or caps of darkness, or anything nice and impossible, but only in horrid useless facts, and chemistry, and geology, and arithmetic, and mathematics, and even political economy.
"Not believe in Firedrakes!" cried Alphonso. "I wonder what you do believe in! Just let me get at the creature!" for he was as brave as a lion. "Hi! A Molinda! A Molinda!" which was his war-cry. The page ran to get the armour; but it was so uncommonly hot that he dropped it, and put his fingers in his mouth, crying! "You had better put on flannels, Alphonso, for this kind of work," said Prigio.
He'll come back when he's tired: there are no Firedrakes; a French writer says they are 'purement fabuleux, purely fabulous, you know." "Prince Alphonso has gone on his travels, and will come back when he is tired! And was he then tired of me?" cried poor Molinda, bursting into tears, and forgetting her dignity. "Oh!
When our shipps Carrying such firedrakes in them that the huge Spanish Galleasses, Galleons, Hulkes and Carrackes Being great with gold, in labour with some fright, Were all delivered of fine redcheekt Children At Plymouth, Portsmouth and other English havens And onely by men midwives: had not Spayne reason To cry out, oh Diables Ingleses! It had not spoke such Spanish else.
Eh! what do you say, you sneak? 'You didn't believe there were any Firedrakes? That just comes of your eternal conceit and arrogance! If you were clever enough to kill the creature and I admit that you were clever enough to know that what everybody said must be true.
You see how hot it is, and how coolly he takes it, and the country suffering; and all on account of a Firedrake, you know, which has apparently built his nest not far off. Well, I have asked that lout of a brother of yours to kill it, and he says " "That he does not believe in Firedrakes," interrupted Prigio. "The weather's warm enough without going out hunting!"
Now, the prince had never heard that Firedrakes could fly; indeed, he had never believed in them at all, till the night before. For a moment he was numb with terror; then he flew down like a stone to the very bottom of the hill, and shouted: "Hi!" "Well," grunted the Firedrake, "what's the matter? Why can't you give a civil answer to a civil question?"
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