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"Is life, then, so worthless? and is Molinda so terrible a person that you prefer those arms," and she pointed to the gibbet, "to these?" here she held out her own, which were very white, round and pretty: for Molinda was a good-hearted girl, she could not bear to see Prigio put to death; and then, perhaps, she reflected that there are worse positions than the queenship of Pantouflia.
And now the prince was thinking of nothing in the world but the daughter of the English ambassador, and how to please her. He got introduced to her father too, and quite won his heart; and, at last, he was invited to dine next day at the Embassy. In Pantouflia, it is the custom that a ball must not end while one of the royal family goes on dancing.
"Name them!" said the king. "Let me be transported to Gluckstein, left there unguarded, and if, in three days, I do not return with my brothers safe and well, your majesty shall be spared a cruel duty. Prigio of Pantouflia will perish by his own hand." The king, whose mind did not work very quickly, took some minutes to think over it.
And here the prince fluttered the cheque for 1,000,000 pounds in the air. For a moment the king was tempted; but then he said to himself: "Never mind, it's only an extra penny on the income-tax." Then, "Keep your dross," he shouted, meaning the million; "but let me keep my promise. To chapel at once, or " and he pointed to the executioner. "The word of a king of Pantouflia is sacred."
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