"It is to him I must go," said the Queen; "the fairies told me the evil, but they forgot to tell me the remedy."
She started early in the morning, mounted on her little white mule9, that was shod with gold, and accompanied by two of her maids of honour, who each rode a pretty horse.
When they were near the wood they dismounted out of respect, and made their way to the tree where the hermit lived. He did not much care for the visits of women, but when he saw that it was the Queen approaching, he said, "Welcome! what would you ask of me?" She related to him what the fairies had said about Rosette, and asked him to advise her what to do.
He told her that the Princess must be shut up in a tower, and not be allowed to leave it as long as she lived. The Queen thanked him, and returned and told everything to the King. The King immediately gave orders for a large tower to be built as quickly as possible. In it he placed his daughter, but that she might not feel lonely and depressed10,
he, and the Queen, and her two brothers, went to see her every day. The elder of these was called the big Prince, and the younger, the little Prince.
They loved their sister passionately11, for she was the most beautiful and graceful12 Princess ever seen, and the least glance of hers was worth more than a hundred gold pieces. When she was fifteen years old, the big Prince said to the King, "Father, my sister is old enough to be married; shall we not soon have a wedding?" The little Prince said the same to the
Queen, but their Majesties13 laughed and changed the subject, and made no answer about the marriage.
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