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it, it made me miserable. But I had learned to obey him, to listen to him in all things. And was he not a Prince?

u Ah!" said I to myself, at last, "he has gone down to take possession of his throne. He will cross the seas and see maidens fair indeed, nearly as lovely in some respects as Paquita;" and this was my consolation.

u Years and years," I said to myself that night as I looked in the fire, and the dance went on; " Years and years !" I counted it upon my fingers,, and said u I will be dead then."