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Riquet. u That I can easily believe/' replied the princess, u and
to be sure 1 should be gToatly at a toss what to say to you, if I
did not know that you possess the best sense in the world* IT
you were a silly prince, you would say, * The promise of a
princess should not be broken, and therefore you must marry
me.* But you, prince ltirjuet, who have so much more sense
than anybody else, will, 1 hope, excuse me for what I have said.
You cannot forget that, when I was a silly stupid princess,
J would not freely consent to marry you; how? therefore,
now that 1 am blest with sense, and for that reason must of
course be more hard to be pleased, can you expect me to
choose the prince I then would not accept? If you really
wished to marry me, you did very wrong to change me from the
most silly creature in the world, to the most witty, so as to
make me sec more plainly the faults of others.11— “ If, madam,"
replied Riquet with the Tuft, “ you would think it but right
in a prince without sense to blame you for what you have said,
why should you deny me the same power in au affair in which