Identifier : pinkfairybooklan00lang ( find matches )
Title : The pink fairy book
Year : 1897 ( 1890s )
Authors : Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, ed
Subjects : Tales
Publisher : New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library : New York Public Library
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sorrowfullot during the twenty years he had lived in the forest asa hideous lindorm. This he did, and then his parentshad it proclaimed over the whole country that he wastheir eldest son, and along with his spouse should inheritthe country and kingdom after them. Prince Lindorm and his beautiful wife now lived injoy and prosperity for a time in the palace; and whenhis father was laid in the grave, not long after this, heobtained the whole kingdom. Soon afterwards hismother also departed from this world. Now it happened that an enemy declared war againstthe young king; and, as he foresaw that it would be threeyears at the least before he could return to his countryand his queen, he ordered all his servants who remainedat home to guard her most carefully. That they mightbe able to write to each other in confidence, he had twoseal rings made, one for himself and one for his youngqueen, and issued an order that no one, under pain ofdeath, was to open any letter that was sealed with one of
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308 KING LIN DORM these. Then he took farewell of his queen, and marchedout to war. The queens wicked stepmother had heard with greatgrief that her beautiful stepdaughter had prospered sowell that she had not only preserved her life, but hadeven become queen of the country. She now plottedcontinually how she might destroy her good fortune.While King Lindorm was away at the war the wickedwoman came to the queen, and spoke fair to her, sa^dngthat she had always foreseen that her stepdaughter wasdestined to be something great in the world, and thatshe had on this account secured that she should bethe enchanted princes bride. The queen, who did notimagine that any person could be so deceitful, bade herstepmother welcome, and kept her beside her. Soon after this the queen had two children, theprettiest boys that anyone could see. When she had writtena letter to the king to tell him of this her stepmotherasked leave to comb her hair for her, as her own motherused to do. The queen gave her p

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