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he old Queen ordered Feintise to
strangle the Queen's three children and the
son of the Princess, and bury them so secretly

that no one should ever be the wiser. As she
was about to execute this order, and held
already in her hand the fatal cord, she cast her
eyes on the poor infants, and was so struck by
their beauty and the extraordinary appearance
of the stars that sparkled on their foreheads,
that she shrank from dipping her hands in such
illustrious blood!
She had a boat brought round to the sea-

beach. They put the four babes into the same
cradle with some strings of jewels, so that if
fortune should cast them into the hands of
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