angry, as well she might be.
"Did you expect me to believe you, princess?" asked the nurse coldly. "I
know princesses are in the habit of telling make-believes, but you are
the first I ever heard of who expected to have them believed," she
added, seeing that the child was strangely in earnest.
The princess burst into tears.
"Well, I must say," remarked the nurse, now thoroughly vexed with her
for crying, "it is not at all becoming in a princess to tell stories
_and_ expect to be believed just because she is a princess."
"But it's quite true, I tell you, nursie."
"You've dreamt it, then, child."
"No, I didn't dream it. I went up-stairs, and I lost myself, and if I
hadn't found the beautiful lady, I should never have found myself."
"Oh, I daresay!"
Madhuri Noah
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