There the Prince held Graciosa 's hand in his , and made her put the tip of her little finger into her mouth , and look towards the town , and immediately she saw the wicked Queen go to the King , and heard her say to him , ` That miserable Princess is dead , and no great loss either . I have ordered that she shall be buried at once . ' And then the Princess saw how she dressed up a log of wood and had it buried , and how the old King cried , and all the people murmured that the Queen had killed Graciosa with her cruelties , and that she ought to have her head cut off . When the Princess saw that the King was so sorry for her pretended death that he could neither eat nor drink , she cried : ` Ah , Percinet ! take me back quickly if you love me . ' And so , though he did not want to at all , he was obliged to promise that he would let her go . ` You may not regret me , Princess , ' he said sadly , ` for I fear that you do not love me well enough ; but I foresee that you will more than once regret that you left this fairy palace where we have been so happy . ' But , in spite of all he could say , she bade farewell to the Queen , his mother , and prepared to set out ; so Percinet , very unwillingly , brought the little sledge with the stags and she mounted beside him . But they had hardly gone twenty yards when a tremendous noise behind her made Graciosa look back , and she saw the palace of crystal fly into a million splinters , like the spray of a fountain , and vanish . ` Oh , Percinet ! ' she cried , ` what has happened ? The palace is gone . ' ` Yes , ' he answered , ` my palace is a thing of the past ; you will see it again , but not until after you have been buried . ' ` Now you are angry with me , ' said Graciosa in her most coaxing voice , ` though after all I am more to be pitied than you are . ' When they got near the palace the Prince made the sledge and themselves invisible , so the Princess got in unobserved , and ran up to the great hall where the King was sitting all by himself . At first he was very much startled by Graciosa 's sudden appearance , but she told him how the Queen had left her out in the forest , and how she had caused a log of wood to be buried . The King , who did not know what to think , sent quickly and had it dug up , and sure enough it was as the Princess had said . Then he caressed Graciosa , and made her sit down to supper with him , and they were as happy as possible . But someone had by this time told the wicked Queen that Graciosa had come back , and was at supper with the King , and in she flew in a terrible fury . The poor old King quite trembled before her , and when she declared that Graciosa was not the Princess at all , but a wicked impostor , and that if the King did not give her up at once she would go back to her own castle and never see him again , he had not a word to say , and really seemed to believe that it was not Graciosa after all .
So the Queen XXXXX great triumph sent for her waiting women , who dragged the unhappy Princess away and shut her up in a garret ; they took away all her jewels and her pretty dress , and gave her a rough cotton frock , wooden shoes , and a little cloth cap .
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