should prove to be nearly parallel with the stream, I shall know it is
toward the king's house they are working."
"And what if you should. How much wiser will you be then?"
"Wait a minute, mother, dear. I told you that when I came upon the
royal
family in the cave, they were talking of their prince--Harelip, they
called him--marrying a sun-woman--that means one of us--one with
toes to
her feet. Now in the speech one of them made that night at their great
gathering, of which I heard only a part, he said that peace would be
secured for a generation at least by the pledge the prince would hold
for the good behavior of _her_ relatives: that's what he said, and he
must have meant the sun-woman the prince was to marry. I am quite
sure
the king is much too proud to wish his son to marry any but a princess,
and much too knowing to fancy that his having a peasant woman for a
wife
would be of any material advantage to them."
"I see what you are driving at now," said his mother.
Madhuri Noah
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