This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...shall remain yours for ever, and I promise you from this moment eternal peace and amity." " Promise me a fiddlestick!" interrupted the Giant, taking the pipe out of his mouth; "will yonder stubborn little Princess promise to marry me, if I put matters to rights again? That is the only promise which will have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...shall remain yours for ever, and I promise you from this moment eternal peace and amity." " Promise me a fiddlestick!" interrupted the Giant, taking the pipe out of his mouth; "will yonder stubborn little Princess promise to marry me, if I put matters to rights again? That is the only promise which will have any effect, I can assure you." " I marry you?" exclaimed the damsel: " Inhuman monster, what claim can you advance to my affections? Have you not cut my unfortunate mother into a thousand pieces? Have not your spells compelled my royal father to walk upon all fours? Besides, if you had not the worst memory of any Genius upon earth, you would recollect that the stars have decreed that I shall marry nobody, unless I marry Facardin, Prince of Ophir." " A fig for the stars! " cried the Giant; " they don't know what they talk about; for it was but last night that I read in them these identical words, written in a very neat running hand--' Sapinella of Jutland shall never marry Facardin, Prince of Ophir.'" "I shall certainly go distracted!" exclaimed Sapinella, wringing her hands. " I am to marry nobody, if not the Prince of Ophir, and yet it seems the Prince of Ophir is never to marry me: the meaning of all which is, that I am never to marry at all! Surely the devil is in the stars, and I wish they were all at the bottom of the sea, for they are the plague of my existence!" Here she began to weep, as if she meant to set the room afloat. However, her tears could not melt the Giant's hard heart, who rose to take his departure. "On no other conditions," said he, "will I reverse my spells; and if you can reverse them yourself, you are cleverer than I take you to be. Farewell, Princess; the Prince of Ophir will be here shortly. I cannot prevent your...
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Add this copy of The Four Facardins: a Fairy Tale to cart. $59.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
