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"Execute your orders, and then I

shall go and see my children, my

poor children, whom I so much

and so tenderly loved," for she

thought them dead ever since

they had been taken away

without her knowledge.

"No, no, madam" (cried the

poor clerk of the kitchen, all in

tears); "you shall not die, and yet

you shall see your children again;

but then you must go home with

me to my lodgings, where I have

concealed them, and I shall

deceive the queen once more, by

giving her in your stead a young

hind." _

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