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But I don't see--"
He told me serious things."
You don't think," he said, turning on her abruptly, "that there's
anything in the sort of thing he said?"
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There's something in it quite certainly," said she.
You mean--?"
I mean that without knowing it we have been trampling on the most
sacred conceptions of the little folks. We who are royal are a class
apart. We are worshipped prisoners, processional toys. We pay for
worship by losing--our elementary freedom. And I was to have married
that Prince--You know nothing of him though. Well, a pigmy Prince. He
doesn't matter.... It seems it would have strengthened the bonds between
my country and another. And this country also was to profit. Imagine
it!--strengthening the bonds!"
"And now?"
"
They want me to go on with it--as though there was nothing between us
two."
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