THE SNOW-QUEEN
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sitting on a large pearl as round as a spinning wheel. All the ladies-in-waiting were standing round, each with their attendants, and the lords-in-waiting with their attendants. The nearer they stood to the door the prouder they were.'
![black and white illustration of a girl in a puffy-sleeved dress and a crown sitting on a giant pearl under an ornate canopy on a dais holding a puffy-feathered fan behind her head. She is looking at a boy in a plain tunic and patched leggings with a bag slung over his shoulder. The room is full of other fancily dressed people. On the dais between the girl and the boy is a large crow.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/The_Pink_Fairy_Book_-_p89.png/480px-The_Pink_Fairy_Book_-_p89.png)
'It must have been dreadful!' said little Gerda. 'And Kay did win the princess?'
'I heard from my tame sweetheart that he was merry and quick-witted; he had not come to woo, he said, but to listen to the princess's wisdom. And the end of it was that they fell in love with each other.'