hardest in forbidding them to the rest of the women."
"I'm sure I wouldn't wear them--no, not for--that I wouldn't!" said the
first voice, which was evidently that of the mother of the family. "I
can't think why either of them should."
"Didn't I tell you the first was from upstairs?" said the other. "That
was the only silly thing I ever knew his Majesty guilty of. Why should
he marry an outlandish woman like that--one of our natural enemies
too?"
"I suppose he fell in love with her."
"Pooh! pooh! He's just as happy now with one of his own people."
"Did she die _very_ soon? They didn't tease her to death, did they?"
"Oh dear no! The king worshipped her very footmarks."
"What made her die, then? Didn't the air agree with her?"
"She died when the young prince was born."
Madhuri Noah
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