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The Goose Girl

CHAPTER VIII
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You did not find me soon enough; there are yet some popular ideas in my head which are alien to the minds of princesses.

I am free!" And she uttered the words as with the breath of spring.
The chancellor's shoulders drooped a trifle more, and his hand closed down over the letter.

Otherwise there was no notable change in his appearance.

He was always guarding the muscles of his face.
Inscrutability is the first lesson of the diplomat; and he had learned it thirty years before.
"There will be no war," resumed her highness.

"I know my father; our wills may clash, but in this instance mine shall be the stronger." "But this is not the end." "You mean that there will be other kings ?" She had not thought of this, and some of the brightness vanished from her face.
"Yes, there will be other kings.


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