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Updated: May 24, 2025
'Good evening everybody! The Princess jumped and gave a little cry. 'You here! What business have you to do it? Leave at once, or I shall call 'I have come, said the Kinglet, 'to remind you of your promise. The day after to-morrow is Easter Day, and it is high time to think of our marriage. Ludovine burst out into a fit of laughter. 'Our marriage!
Do they give one wit, or will they increase one's beauty? 'They could not increase what is perfect already, fair Princess, but still they might add something. Rolling stones gather no moss, but they sometimes gain polish; and the months which John had spent in roaming about the world had not been wasted. Such a neatly turned compliment flattered Ludovine.
'I only spoke of it, said John, 'because you see in me the man who delivered the Princess from the goblins and whom she promised to marry. 'Is that true? asked the King of the Princess. 'Quite true, answered Ludovine. 'But I told my deliverer to be ready to go with me when I passed by with my coach. I passed three times, but he slept so soundly that no one could wake him.
'Then, my little husband, tell me how you managed to carry me so quickly to the ends of the world. The little soldier scratched his head. 'Does she really mean to marry me, he thought to himself, 'or is she only trying to deceive me again? But Ludovine repeated, 'Won't you tell me? in such a tender voice he did not know how to resist her.
It is only possible to cure people whose souls are as clean as the palm of my hand. Are you sure you have not committed some little sin? Examine yourself well. Ludovine had no need to think over it long, but she was torn in pieces between the shame of a humiliating confession, and the desire to be unhorned. At last she made answer with downcast eyes,
He emptied the purse altogether and then shut it; when he opened it the fifty crowns were still there! Then a plan came into his head, and he determined to go at once to the Court tailor and coachbuilder. He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet embroidered with pearls, and the coachbuilder to make him a golden coach like the coach of the Princess Ludovine.
He laid his head on his left arm, round which the scarf was tied, and was soon fast asleep. Ludovine was watching him out of one eye, and no sooner did she hear him snore than she unfastened the mantle, drew it gently from under him and wrapped it round her, took the purse from his pocket, and put it in hers, and said: 'I wish I was back in my own room. In another moment she was there.
'I have stolen a leather purse from a little soldier. 'Give it to me. The remedy will not act till I hold the purse in my hands. It cost Ludovine a great pang to give up the purse, but she remembered that riches would not benefit her if she was still to keep the horns.
On the first story one window was lighted, and John saw on the curtains the shadow of the Princess. 'I wish myself in the room of the Princess Ludovine, said he, and in a second he was there. The King's daughter was sitting before a table counting the money that she emptied from the inexhaustible purse. 'Eight hundred and fifty, nine hundred, nine hundred and fifty 'A thousand, finished John.
And we know how they had acted on John. However, even in this critical moment, Ludovine did not lose her head. 'I thought you were simply a street vagabond, said she, in her most coaxing voice; 'and I find you are more powerful than any king. Here is your purse. Have you got my scarf and my bouquet?
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