They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way… — Hans Christian Andersen
They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.
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