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You are a native of this country—you must know the way.

I have never entered these inner royal gardens before.

I won't hear of it—you must show me the way, or I shall split you into halves.

You may take my life by that means, but it would be a very precarious method of finding the way out of this garden.

Why were you, then, going about saying that you were the King of this country?