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12 - Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood · Science Fiction Books

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  Speaker 3: Chapter twelve, The sad, Sad Tale of the Sorrowing Princess
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  Speaker 3: with a speck in her heart, and what all happened
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  Speaker 3: when she had ended it, which the reader must read
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  Speaker 3: for himself. Little Baron and dear Lord Bulger began the
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  Speaker 3: crystal eyed Damosel, after she had eased her soul of
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  Speaker 3: its load of woe by three long and deep deep size.
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  Speaker 3: Know then that I am not the Damosel Glowstone, but
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  Speaker 3: none other than the Royal Princess Cristelina herself. That she
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  Speaker 3: whose hair I comb should comb mine, that she whom
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  Speaker 3: I have served for ten long years, should have served me.
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  Speaker 3: And to think, o Princess, I burst out joyfully, that
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  Speaker 3: my beloved Vulgar should have been the first to discover
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  Speaker 3: that she, who was seated on the steps of the
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  Speaker 3: crystal throne, was not entitled to the seat, to think
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  Speaker 3: that his subtle intellect should have been the first to
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  Speaker 3: scent out the wrong that had been done. THEE his
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  Speaker 3: keen eye, the first to go to the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the truths. Well, but, fair Princess, I am bursting with
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  Speaker 3: impatience to know how thou thyself did ever discover the
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  Speaker 3: wrong that has been done. THEE that thou shalt speedily know,
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  Speaker 3: little Baron, answered Cristelina, And that thou mayest know all
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  Speaker 3: that I know. I'll begin at the very beginning. The
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  Speaker 3: day I was born, there was great rejoicing in the
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  Speaker 3: land of the Micamenkes, and the people gathered in front
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  Speaker 3: of the royal palace and laughed and cried by turns.
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  Speaker 3: So happy were they to think they were to be
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  Speaker 3: governed by another princess after Queen Galaxi's heart should run down.
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  Speaker 3: For many years ago, a bad king had made them
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  Speaker 3: very unhappy, and they had hoped and prayed that no
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  Speaker 3: more such would come to reign over them. And pretty
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  Speaker 3: soon one of them began to tell the others what
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  Speaker 3: he thought the little princess would be like. She will
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  Speaker 3: be the fairest that ever sat upon the crystal throne.
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  Speaker 3: Her hands and feet will be like pearls tipped with coral,
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  Speaker 3: her hair whiter than the river's foam, and from her
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  Speaker 3: beautiful eyes will burst the radiance of her pure soul.
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  Speaker 3: And her heart, Oh, her heart will be like a
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  Speaker 3: little lump of frozen water, so clear and so transparent.
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  Speaker 3: Will it be so like a bit of purest crystal,
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  Speaker 3: bright and flawless as a diamond of the first water.
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  Speaker 3: And therefore let her be called the Princess Cristellina, or
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  Speaker 3: the maid with the crystal heart. Forthwith the cry went up,
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  Speaker 3: I let her be called Crystallina, or the maid with
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  Speaker 3: the crystal heart. And Queen Galaxa heard the cry of
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  Speaker 3: her people and sent them word that it should be
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  Speaker 3: as they wished, that I should be the Princess cris Delina.
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  Speaker 3: But ah me that I should have lived to tell it.
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  Speaker 3: After a few days, the nurse came to my royal mother,
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  Speaker 3: wringing her hands and pouring down a flood of tears.
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  Speaker 3: Throwing herself on her knee, she whispered to the Queen
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  Speaker 3: Royal Mistress, bid me die rather than tell thee what
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  Speaker 3: I know. Being ordered to speak, the nurse informed Queen
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  Speaker 3: Galaxa that she had that day for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: held me up to the light, and had discovered that
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  Speaker 3: there was a spat in my heart. The Queen uttered
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  Speaker 3: a cry of horror and swoon. When she came to herself,
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  Speaker 3: she directed that I should be brought to her and
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  Speaker 3: held up to the light, so that she might see
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  Speaker 3: for herself. Alas too true, there was a speck in
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  Speaker 3: my heart. Sure enough I was not worthy of the
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  Speaker 3: sweet name which her loving people had bestowed upon me.
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  Speaker 3: They would turn from me with horror. They would never
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  Speaker 3: consent to have me for or their queen when the
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  Speaker 3: truth should become known. They would not be moved by
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  Speaker 3: a mother's prayers. They would turn a deaf ear to
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  Speaker 3: every one who should be bold enough to advise them
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  Speaker 3: to accept a princess with a speck in her heart,
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  Speaker 3: when they had thought they were getting one well deserving
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  Speaker 3: of the title they had bestowed upon her. Queen Glaxa
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  Speaker 3: knew that something must be done at once, that it
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  Speaker 3: would be time and labor lost to attempt to reason
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  Speaker 3: with the disappointed people. So she set to work thinking
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  Speaker 3: up some way out of her trouble. Now, it so
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  Speaker 3: happened little Baron that the very day I had come
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  Speaker 3: into the world, a babe had been born to one
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  Speaker 3: of Queen Galaxa's serving women, and so hastily summing the woman,
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  Speaker 3: she ordered her to bring her babe into the royal
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  Speaker 3: bedchamber and leave it there, promising that it should be
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  Speaker 3: brought up as my foster sister. But no sooner had
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  Speaker 3: the serving woman gone her way rejoicing, than the nurse
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  Speaker 3: was ordered to change the children in the cradle, and
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  Speaker 3: in a few moments Glowstone was wrapped in my richly
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  Speaker 3: embroidered blanket, and I swathed up in her plain Coverlets
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  Speaker 3: how things went for several years, I know not, But
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  Speaker 3: one day a how well I recollect it. My little
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  Speaker 3: mind was puzzled by hearing Cristellina cry out, nay nay Dermomma,
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  Speaker 3: tis not fair. I like it not Each day when
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  Speaker 3: thou comest to us, thou givest clothes on ten kisses
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  Speaker 3: and me but single one. Then would Queen Galaxa smile
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  Speaker 3: a sad smile and bestow some babble upon Christellina to
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  Speaker 3: coax her back to contentment again. And so we went on,
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  Speaker 3: Cristellina and I, from one year to another, until we
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  Speaker 3: were little maids well grown, and she sat on the
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  Speaker 3: throne and wore royal purple stitched with gold, and I
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  Speaker 3: plain white. But still most of the kisses fell to
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  Speaker 3: my share, and I marveled not a little at it,
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  Speaker 3: but dared not ask why it was. However, once when
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  Speaker 3: I was alone with Wayne Glaxa, seated on my cushion
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  Speaker 3: in the corner, blind my needle, and thinking of the
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  Speaker 3: sail we were to have on the river that day,
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  Speaker 3: suddenly I was startled to see the Queen throw herself
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  Speaker 3: on her knees in front of me, and to feel
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  Speaker 3: her clasp me in her arms and cover my face
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  Speaker 3: and head with tears and kisses as she sobbed and moaned, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my babe, my lost babe, my blessing, and my joy
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  Speaker 3: wilt never never, never come back to me, Art gone forever?
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  Speaker 3: Must I give thee up? Or must I nay? Royal lady,
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  Speaker 3: I stammered in my more than wonder at her words
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  Speaker 3: and actions. Thou art in a dream awake and see
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  Speaker 3: clearly I am not crystalline. I am glowstone, thy foster child.
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  Speaker 3: I'll hie me straight and bring my royal sister to thee.
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  Speaker 3: But she would not let me loose, and for all
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  Speaker 3: answer showered more kisses on me till I was well
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  Speaker 3: nigh smothered, so tight she held me pressed against her bosom,
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  Speaker 3: while around and o'er me, her long thick tresses fell
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  Speaker 3: like a woven mantle. And then she told me all
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  Speaker 3: all that I have told thee little Marin, and charged
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  Speaker 3: me never to impart it unto any soul in Goggleland.
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  Speaker 3: And I made a solemn promise unto her that I
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  Speaker 3: never would, And thou hast kept thy word like a
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  Speaker 3: true princess, as thou art said, I cheerily, for I
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  Speaker 3: am not of thy world, Fair Cristellina. Now that I
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  Speaker 3: have told these a sad tale of the sorrowing princess
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  Speaker 3: with a speck in her heart, little Parin, murmured Cristelina,
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  Speaker 3: fixing her large and radiant eyes upon me. There is
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  Speaker 3: but one thing more for me to do, and it
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  Speaker 3: is to let THEE look through me, so that thou
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  Speaker 3: mayest know exactly what counsel to give. And so saying,
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  Speaker 3: the fair princess rose from her seat, and, having placed
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  Speaker 3: herself in front of me, with it a flood of
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  Speaker 3: white light falling full upon her back, she lowered her
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  Speaker 3: black fan and bade me gaze upon the heavy heart,
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  Speaker 3: which she had carried about with her all those years,
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  Speaker 3: and tell her exactly how large the speck was, and
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  Speaker 3: where it lay, and what color it was. I was
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  Speaker 3: overjoyed to get an opportunity at last to look through
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  Speaker 3: one of the micaminky's, and my own heart bounded with
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  Speaker 3: satisfaction as I looked and looked upon that mysterious little thing. Nay,
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  Speaker 3: rather a tiny being, living, breathing, palpitating within her breast,
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  Speaker 3: now slow and measured as she dwelt in thought upon
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  Speaker 3: her sad fate, now beating faster and faster as the
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  Speaker 3: hope bubbled up in her mind, that possibly I might
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  Speaker 3: be able to counsel her so wisely that an end
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  Speaker 3: would come to all her sorrow. Well wise, little Baron,
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  Speaker 3: she murmured, anxiously, what seest thou Is it very large?
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  Speaker 3: In what part is it? Is it black as night
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  Speaker 3: or some color less fatal Take courage, fair Princess, said I,
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  Speaker 3: it is very small, and lies just beneath the bow
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  Speaker 3: on the left side. Nor is it black but reddish? Rather,
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  Speaker 3: And if a single drop of blood from the veins
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  Speaker 3: of thy far distant ancestors had outlived them these thousands
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  Speaker 3: of years, and hardened there to tell whence thy people came.
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  Speaker 3: The princess wept tears of joy upon hearing these comforting words.
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  Speaker 3: If it had been black, she whispered, I would have
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  Speaker 3: laid me down in this bed of violets and never
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  Speaker 3: risen more till my people had come to bear me
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  Speaker 3: to my grave in the silent burial chamber, unvisited by
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  Speaker 3: the river of light. At this sad outbreak, Bulgar whined
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  Speaker 3: piteously and licked the Princess's hands as he looked up
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  Speaker 3: at her with his dark eyes radiant with sympathy. She
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  Speaker 3: was greatly cheered by this message of comfort, and it
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  Speaker 3: moved me too by its heartiness. List fair Princess, said
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  Speaker 3: I gravely, I own the task is not a little one,
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  Speaker 3: but hope for the best. I would that we had
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  Speaker 3: more time, But as thou knowest, Queen Galaxi's heart will
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  Speaker 3: soon run down. Therefore must we act with despatch as
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  Speaker 3: well as wisdom. But first of all, must I speak
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  Speaker 3: with the Queen and gain her consent to act for
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  Speaker 3: thee in this matter that I fear she will never grant,
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  Speaker 3: moaned Cristallina. However, thou art so much wiser than I
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  Speaker 3: do as best seems to thee. The next thing to
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  Speaker 3: be done, fair Princess, I added, solemnly, is to show
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  Speaker 3: thy heart boldly and fearlessly to thy people. Nay, little Baron,
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  Speaker 3: she exclaimed, rising to her feet, that may not be.
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  Speaker 3: That may not be. For know that our law doth
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  Speaker 3: make it trees in itself for one of our people
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  Speaker 3: to look through a person of royal blood. Oh no, oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: little baron, that may never be. Stay, sweet Princess, I urged,
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  Speaker 3: in gentlest tones. Not so fast, thou dost not know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean by showing the heart boldly to thy people.
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  Speaker 3: Never fear, I will not break the law of the land.
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  Speaker 3: And yet they shall look upon the speck within thy
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  Speaker 3: heart and see how small it is, and hear what
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  Speaker 3: I have to say about it, and thou shalt not
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  Speaker 3: even be visible to them. Oh, little Barren, murmured Cristelina.
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  Speaker 3: If this may only be, I feel they will forgive me.
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  Speaker 3: Thou art so wise, and thy words carry such strong
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  Speaker 3: hope to my poor heavy heart, that I almost nay,
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  Speaker 3: fair Princess, I interrupted, hope for the best. No more,
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  Speaker 3: I am not wise enough to read the future, and
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  Speaker 3: from what I know of thy people. They seem but
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  Speaker 3: little different from mine own. Perchance I may be able
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  Speaker 3: to sway them toward my views and make them cry
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  Speaker 3: long Live Princess Cristellina. But I can only promise THEE
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  Speaker 3: to do my best. Betake thee now to the palace,
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  Speaker 3: and scorn not for yet a day or so, to
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  Speaker 3: take up the golden comb and play the damosel glowstone
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  Speaker 3: in all humility. End of chapter twelve.
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