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who, seeing the beauty of Sweet
Diamond Pie (for that was the name
Betta gave him), fell desperately in
love with him. Now Sweet Diamond
Pie, who had only opened his eyes on
the wickedness of the world three
hours before, and was as innocent as
a babe, accompanied the strangers
who had come to celebrate his
nuptials to the stairs, as his bride had
told him; and when he did the same
with this Queen, she took him by the
hand and led him quietly to her
coach, drawn by six horses, which
stood in the courtyard; then taking
him into it, she ordered the coachman
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