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The Seeds of Love.
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Next day when Queen Blanchelys came to look at her tree she found it drooping, so she called to the gardeners An image should appear at this position in the text. to give it water, but not all the water in the world could refresh it, and each day it drooped more and more, and the flowers began to die and fall away. Poor Queen Blanchelys watched it with tears in her eyes. She sent for gardeners from far and near, but they _could do nothing for it, and the Queen was sick at heart, and grew pale and thin, for she knew that her husband was beginning to love her less and less,

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