Portal:Children's literature/Selected quote/3
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- Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, Translated by H. P. Paull (1872).
| Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it. There, that is a true story. |