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h, King," answered the green bird,
with a loud and intelligible voice; "she is thy
daughter, and two of these princes are thy

sons, the third, called Cheri, is thy nephew;"
and it then related with wonderful eloquence
the whole history, without omitting the least
circumstance. The King wept, and the afflicted
Queen, who had quitted the cauldron, the
bones, and the dogs, approached gently,
weeping for joy and love for her husband and
her children; for could she doubt the truth of
this statement, when she perceived all the

tokens by which they could be recognised. The
three Princes and Belle-Etoile rose up at the
end of their history, they ______

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