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PRINCESS AND MICROBE
"This morning," beamed the Princess. "When were you hurt?"
"Oh, I believe it was this morning," said the Knight carelessly.
"I wish, for your sake, I had done it sooner," said Victorine regretfully. One of her greatest charms was her slowness in putting two and two together. Now she had little time for it, for the Knight fainted again. For the first time in her life, the Princess repented of her aversion to smelling-salts. However, there was plenty of water in the spring, and she kept her best lawn handkerchief, which she had carried up her sleeve, wet upon the sick man's brow. Through the fever of that day she watched him, and all night, and again a second one. and on the third day there was
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