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to drive off and away to her country.
Here the simpleton Sweet Diamond
Pie, unaware of what happened,
becameher husband.
After Betta had waited a while in vain
expecting Sweet Diamond Pie to
return, she sent down into the
courtyard to see whether he were
speaking with any one there; then she
sent up to the roof to see if he had gone
to take fresh air; she glanced in the
restroom, to see if he was giving off his
first pee; but finding him nowhere, she
directly imagined that, on account of
his great beauty, he had been stolen
from her. So she ordered the usual
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