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to her, and tenderly embraced her, crying out, ‘How much I am
obliged to the king, who has so agreeably surprised me!’

‘Do not expect to see the king any more,’ replied the princess,
embracing him in her turn, with tears in her eyes; ‘you see him
in me: sit down, and I will explain this enigma to you.’

 

_ They sat down, and the princess told the prince the resolution
she came to, in the field’ where they encamped the last time they
‘were together, as soon as she perceived that she waited for him to
no purpose; how she went through with it till she arrived at the