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PRINCESS AND MICROBE
by holding her white hand above the ground.
"I don't agree with you," said the Knight. "You're not in the least like a boy, really. You do not look like one, nor use your arms like one."
"When have you noticed that?" asked the Princess, in surprise.
"Oh, lots of times," he answered evasively. "But tell me why you think so."
Sitting beside him, with the beech leaves making a flickering shade on her face and throat, the Princess told him all the tragedy of her life, her discovery of her initial great mistake, her unavailing efforts to set it right, and the persecutions she had suffered because she was not ladylike. It was the first confidence that she had made in all
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