. The pink fairy book. monthsafter this, she brought into the world a little girl. Therewas a nurse in readiness, whom the wise woman hadprovided, and preparations were made for her living withthe child, quite alone, in a secluded wing of the castle,looking out on the pleasure-park. The queen did as thewise woman had told her; she gave up the child immedi-ately, and the nurse took it and lived with it there. When the king came home and heard that a daughterhad been born to him, he was of course very pleased andhappy, and wanted to see her at once. The queen had then to tell him this much of th
. The pink fairy book. monthsafter this, she brought into the world a little girl. Therewas a nurse in readiness, whom the wise woman hadprovided, and preparations were made for her living withthe child, quite alone, in a secluded wing of the castle,looking out on the pleasure-park. The queen did as thewise woman had told her; she gave up the child immedi-ately, and the nurse took it and lived with it there. When the king came home and heard that a daughterhad been born to him, he was of course very pleased andhappy, and wanted to see her at once. The queen had then to tell him this much of thestory, that it had been foretold that it would cause great I THE PRINCESS IN THE CHEST 59 sorrow and misfortune if either he or she got a sight ofthe child until it had completed its fourteenth year. This was a long time to wait. The king longed somuch to get a sight of his daughter, and the queen no lessthan he, but she knew that it was not like other children,for it could speak immediately after it was born, and was. as wise as older folk. This the nurse had told her, forwith her the queen had a talk now and again, but therewas no one else who had ever seen the princess. Thequeen had also seen what the wise woman could do, soshe insisted strongly that her warning should be king often lost his patience, and was determined tosee his daughter, but the queen always put him off the 60 THE PRINCESS IN THE CHEST idea, and so things went on, until the very day beforethe princess completed her fourteenth year. The king and the queen were out in the garden then,and the king said, Now I cant and I wont wait anylonger. I must see my daughter at once. A few hours,more or less, cant make any difference. The queen begged him to have patience till themorning. When they had waited so long, they couldsurely wait a single day more. But the king was quiteunreasonable. No nonsense, said he; she is just asmuch mine as yours, and I idll see her, and with that hewent straight up to her r
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