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"But he's a very handsome, adorable boy," began her mother.
"And half-American just as you are, my child," put in her father
encouragingly. "Nothing could be more suitable than--"
"I don't intend to marry anybody until I'm thirty at least, so that
ends it, daddy,--I mean, your poor old highness."
"Naturally we do not expect you to be married before you are out of
short frocks, my dear," said Prince Dantan stiffly. "But a betrothal
is quite another thing. It is customary to arrange these marriages
years before--"
"Is Prince Robin in love with me?"
"I--ahem!--that's a very silly question. He hasn't seen you since you
were a baby. But he _will_ be in love with you, never fear."
"He may be in love with some one else, for all we know, so where do I
come in?"
"Come in?" gasped her father.
"She's part American, dear," explained the mother, with her prettiest
smile.
"Besides," said the Crown Princess, with finality, "I'm not even
going to be engaged to a man I've never seen. And if you insist, I'll
run away as sure as anything.


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