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Lords of the White and Grey Castles.
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“That’s our story.”

“Excepting the tale of yesterday,” said King Winwealth, “I have not heard such a story since my brother Wisewit went from me, and was lost in the forest. Gaygarters, the sixth of my pages, go and bring this maiden a pair of white silk hose with golden clocks on them.”

Queen Wantall and Princess Greedalind at this looked crosser than ever; but Gaygarters brought the white silk hose, and Snowflower, having dropped her courtesy, and taken her seat, was carried once more to the kitchen, where they gave her a mattress that night, and next day she got the ends of choice dishes.

The feast, the music, and the dancing went on, so did the envies within and the clamours without the palace. In the evening King Winwealth fell again into low spirits after supper, and a message coming down from the banquet hall, the kitchen-maid told Snowflower to prepare herself, and go up with her grandmother’s chair, for his majesty wished to hear another story. Having washed her face and combed her hair, put on her scarlet shoes and her gold-clocked hose, Snowflower went up as before, seated in her grandmother’s chair; and after courtesying as usual to the king, the queen, the princess, and the noble company, the little girl

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