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Updated: May 18, 2025
He had scarcely uttered the words when he leaped upon the window-sill, jumped through the window into the room, went through the room to the table, and took his place at the very top, where the emperor had sat when he was a bridegroom. "Stop, stop!" said Ileane. "First let me see whether you are what you ought to be, and then we'll talk and begin our love-making.
After the neighboring emperor's son had recovered, he mounted his horse and set off to ask Ileane to be his wife. The old emperor, Ileane's father, after hearing for what purpose the prince had come, said to him kindly: "Go and ask Ileane, my son and hero; whatever she wishes shall, with God's help, be done." Ileane said nothing, but permitted the prince to kiss her.
The princes sent a third message to the two princesses and told them they must send Ileane in a different way from what they had done before. This time both the princesses feigned illness, called their sister to them, and told her that they could not get well unless Ileane brought them two of the princes' apples.
After the emperor's death Mogarzea divided the kingdom with his preserver. Cunning Ileane. Once upon a time something happened. If it had not happened, it would not be told. There was once an emperor who had three daughters; the oldest was beautiful, the middle one more beautiful, but the youngest, Ileane, was so fair that even the sun stopped to gaze at her and admire her charms.
When the prince reached home and joined his brothers, he told them the whole story, and after every thing had been related their hearts were filled with rage. So they sent word to the two older princesses that they must arrange to have Ileane go to the three princes' court, so that they might revenge themselves upon her for the insult she had offered them.
The servants did not waste many words, but instantly opened the iron door and went into the cellar, where they found the prince and brought him in disgrace to be sentenced. Ileane pronounced judgment. Twelve girls under punishment for some offense were to carry him out of the country, and when they had reached the frontier with him, each one was to give him a kiss. The order was obeyed.
When the oldest daughter received this message from the prince she pretended to be sick, called Ileane to her bedside, and told her that she could not get well unless Ileane brought her something to eat from the princes' kitchen. Ileane would have done any thing for her sister's sake, so she took a little jug and set off for the court of the three princes, to beg or steal.
When the emperor saw this he understood every thing, and ordered the two older princesses to be buried to their breasts in the earth, and left there that they might be an example of the severity of an imperial punishment. But Ileane he praised, kissed, spoke to her in kind, fatherly words, and said: "May you have much happiness, my child, for you have been faithful to your duty."
She had scarcely concealed herself, when the prince returned to the chamber with a sharp sword in his hand. "Tell me now, my dear Ileane," he said, "did you throw me into the cellar?" "Yes," said Ileane, behind the curtain. The prince dealt one blow with the sword on the doll's breast. "Did you drive me out of the country with scorn and mockery?" he asked again. "Yes," said Ileane.
"We should rejoice," replied the sisters, "if our flowers had not withered, our apples had not rotted, and our birds had not stopped singing; but now we have reason to cry." When Ileane heard these words she went to her room, saw the flower sprinkled with dew, the bird hungry, and the apple looking as if it wanted to say: "Eat me, little sister!"
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