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And They Lived Happily Ever After

Meanwhile Clotilde had told Nichette all about what had happened that eventful night,—about the robbers, and Black Bête, and Jean’s horse that stumbled by the road; and how Raoul and the others had found her, thanks to Mignon’s cry of “Mamma, Mamma, Mamma!”

“And do you know, Nichette,” said the Queen gravely, “you and Mignon and the robbers have been very good to me. You have taught me many things, and I shall never be the same stupid, proud, selfish little Doll-Queen shut up in my box of a palace. I have learned some-

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