No , not quite so very much , -- but I want them to like you . Now they ca n't , because they are afraid of you ; for you are so awfully clever . Now , could n't you take the wishing cap , and wish to be no cleverer than other people ? Then everybody would like you ! '' The prince thought a minute , then he said : `` Your will is law , my dear ; anything to please you . Just wait a minute ! '' Then he ran upstairs , for the last time , to the fairy garret , and he put on the wishing cap . `` No , '' thought he to himself , `` I wo n't wish that . Every man has one secret from his wife , and this shall be mine . '' Then he said aloud : `` I WISH TO SEEM NO CLEVERER THAN OTHER PEOPLE . '' Then he ran downstairs again , and the princess noticed a great difference in him -LRB- though , of course , there was really none at all -RRB- , and so did everyone . For the prince remained as clever as ever he had been ; but , as nobody observed it , he became the most popular prince , and finally the best-beloved king who had ever sat on the throne of Pantouflia . But occasionally Rosalind would say , `` I do believe , my dear , that you are really as clever as ever ! '' CHAPTER I. -- How the Fairies were not Invited to Court ONCE upon a time there reigned in Pantouflia a king and a queen . With almost everything else to make them happy , they wanted one thing : they had no children . This vexed the king even more than the queen , who was very clever and learned , and who had hated dolls when she was a child . However , she too , in spite of all the books she read and all the pictures she painted , would have been glad enough to be the mother of a little prince . The king was anxious to consult the fairies , but the queen would not hear of such a thing . She did not believe in fairies : she said that they had never existed ; and that she maintained , though The History of the Royal Family was full of chapters about nothing else . Well , at long and at last they had a little boy , who was generally regarded as the finest baby that had ever been seen .
Even her majesty herself remarked that , XXXXX she could never believe all the courtiers told her , yet he certainly was a fine child -- a very fine child .
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