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royal cortège moved to the inexistent castle of
           my Fortunato. I started to run ahead of the royal
           coach, and when I met some farmhands who
           were reaping the wheat, I ordered them to say
           that those estates belonged to my owner, the lord
           Fortunato. Running on without breath I ordered
           the same to all the soldiers and shepherds and
           woodsmen that I met on the way, and when the
           king asked them who was their lord, they all
           answered: “Fortunato is our lord, and he is the
           owner of these estates!”
             The castle, instead, I got by a stroke of luck.
           When the royal cortège was nearly catching up
           with me, I saw a solitary castle and walked in.
           Some servants told me that their master had been
           far away for a long time, and I ordered them too
           to say that the castle belonged to Fortunato, who
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