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Title: Stories for the household
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894 Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London : G. Routledge and Sons

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all searched for it, consulted learnedbooks, the twinkling stars, the weather and the wind: they had madeinquiries in every byway of which they could think; and at length thewise men and the learned men had said, as we have already told, that Love begets life—will restore a fathers life ; and on this occasion theyhad surpassed themselves, and said more than they understood. Theyrepeated it, and wrote down as a recipe, Love begets life. But howwas the thing to be prepared according to the recipe ? that was a pointthey could not get over. At )ast they were decided upon the point thathelp must come by means of the Princess, through her who clave to herfather with her whole soul; and at last a method had been devisedwhereby help could be procured in this dilemma. Yes, it was alreadymore than a year ago since the Princess had sallied forth by night, whenthe brief rays of the new moon were waning: she had gone out to themarble sphinx, had shakeu, the dust from her sandals, and gone onward
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THE KING OF EGYPT DECEIVED BY THE PBINCESSE3. through the long passage which leads into the midst of one of the greatpyramids, where one of the mighty Kings of antiquity, surrounded bypomp and treasure, lay swathed in mummy cloths. There she was toincline her ear to the breast of the dead King; for thus, said the wisemen, it should be made manifest to her where she might find life andhealth for her father. She had fulfilled all these injunctions, and hadseen in a vision that she was to bring home from the deep lake in thenorthern moorland—the very place had been accurately described to hei 584 Stories for the Household. —the lotos flower which grows in the depths of the waters, and thenher father would regain health and strength. And therefore she had gone forth in the swans plumage out of theland of Egypt to the open heath, to the woodland moor. And the Stork-papa and Stork-mamma knew all this ; and now we also know it moreaccurately than we knew it before. We know that the Marsh

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