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So the stone told him how they had cheated him, and sent little Annie the goose-girl to him in their stead. But as the Prince wished to have no mistake about it, he went down to her where she sat tending her geese, for he wanted to see if she had the ring too, and he thought, 'if she has it, 'twere best to take her at once for my queen'.
He was walking on a stubble-field, in West Vemminghög, tending a goose-flock; and beside him, on the field, walked those same Småland children, with their geese. As soon as he saw them, he ran up on the stone-hedge and shouted: "Oh, good-day, Osa goose-girl! Oh, good-day, little Mats!"
So when the Princess came, little Annie the goose-girl told her the same as she had told the other two, if she'd had any sweetheart before, or if there was anything else she didn't wish the Prince to know, she mustn't tread on the stone that the Prince had put at his bedside; for, said she: 'It tells him everything.
'Sitting all alone there, little Annie, the goose-girl', said the Prince. 'Yes, here I sit, and put stitch to stitch, and patch on patch; for I'm waiting to-day for the king's son from England', said Annie. 'Oh! you mustn't look to have him', said the king's son. 'Nay, but if I'm to have him, have him I shall, after all'; that was what Annie thought.
No one answered; no one had the heart to answer. Without waiting for the duke to bid him continue, Hans unceremoniously ripped open Gretchen's left sleeve. The ragged scar was visible to them all. And while they grouped round the astonished goose-girl they heard her highness cry out with surprise. "What is this?" she said, pointing to the two pairs of shoes and the two cloaks.
"Ah, this little world of ours, the mistakes and futile schemes we make upon it!" The chancellor dallied with his quill pen. "It was a cynical move of fate that your majesty should see the goose-girl first." "Enough!" cried the king vehemently. "Let us have no more retrospection, if you please.
So they did that, and when Annie the goose-girl came and stepped upon the stone the Prince asked: 'Who is this that steps into my bed? 'A maid pure and bright', said the stone, and so they lay down to sleep; but when the night wore on the Princess came and lay down in Annie's stead.
Her voice was not purer or sweeter; it was merely stronger, having been accustomed to the open air. "Brava!" cried the princess, dropping book and whip and folding the note inside the book. "Who taught you to sing?" "Nobody, highness." "What do you do?" "I am a goose-girl; in the fall and winter I work at odd times in the Black Eagle." "The Black Eagle? A tavern?" "Yes, Highness."
"But perhaps I have been disrespectful!" "Pray, how?" Gretchen found that she had no definite explanation to offer. "What did Colonel Wallenstein say to you?" "Nothing of importance. I am used to it. I am perfectly able to take care of myself," she answered. "But he annoyed you." "That is true," she admitted. "What did the policeman say?" "What would he say to a goose-girl?"
'Now you are in the flames of purgatory, to be cleansed and purified for life everlasting', said the Master Thief; and with that he went his way, and took all the gold which the Priest had laid together in his dining-room. The next morning, when the goose-girl came to let the geese out, she heard how the Priest lay in the sack, and bemoaned himself in the goose-house.
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