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The Goose Girl

CHAPTER XVII
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When is the wedding ?" "After the vintage, Highness." Her highness then spoke to the bridegroom-elect.

"You will be good to her ?" "Who could help it, your Highness ?" The pronoun struck her oddly, for peasants as a usual thing never used it in addressing the nobility.
"Well, on the day of the wedding I will stand sponsor to you both.

And good luck go with you.

Come, Hoffman; my horse will be restive and my men impatient." She passed down the aisle, and the head vintner followed, wagging his head.

He was not at all satisfied with that tableau.


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