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The Goose Girl

CHAPTER X
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What should I do without your solid common sense?
No; remain; we are both of us too old to quarrel.

Even a duke may be a fool sometimes." Herbeck laid his cold hand upon the duke's.

Then he went over to her highness and kissed her hand gratefully, for it was truly at her feet the wreath of victory lay.
"Highness," he said softly, "you are the fairest, finest princess in the world, and you shall marry when you will." "And where ?" "I would that I could make it so.

But there is a penalty for being placed so high.

We can not change this unwritten law." "Heaven did not write it," she replied.
"No, my daughter," said the duke.


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