An idle , restless youth ! Ah , my poor country , when I am gone , what may not be your misfortunes under Ricardo ! '' Here his Majesty sighed , and seemed plunged in thought . `` But you are not going yet , my dear , '' said the queen . `` Why you are not forty ! And young people will be young people . You were quite proud when poor Dick came home with his first brace of gigantic fierce birds , killed off his own sword , and with such a pretty princess he had rescued -- dear Jaqueline ? I 'm sure she is like a daughter to me . I can not do without her . '' `` I wish she were a daughter-in-law ; I wish Dick would take a fancy to marry her , '' said the king . `` A nicer girl I never saw . '' `` And so accomplished , '' added Queen Rosalind . `` That girl can turn herself into anything -- a mouse , a fly , a lion , a wheelbarrow , a church ! I never knew such talent for magic . Of course she had the best of teachers , the Fairy Paribanou herself ; but very few girls , in our time , devote so many hours to practice as dear Jaqueline . Even now , when she is out of the schoolroom , she still practises her scales . I saw her turning little Dollie into a fish and back again in the bath-room last night . The child was delighted . '' In these times , you must know , princesses learned magic , just as they learn the piano nowadays ; but they had their music lessons too , dancing , calisthenics , and the use of the globes . `` Yes , she 's a dear , good girl , '' said the king ; `` yet she looks melancholy .
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