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gurgle and scream like a damned
soul, and calmed down towards
morning. In the darkness the
princess crawled under the bed and
saw that there was a trap door, from
which one could descended into a
room. She went down and saw a
passage, and at the end of the
passage there was a light. She went
there and saw an old woman who
was boiling in a saucepan the heart
of the prince who was ill in bed,
because the prince had condemned
to death the old woman's son.
The princess told the woman that
she too hated that scoundrel, and
that ___
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