But , after all , it must have been all Carabosse 's fault . Just at this lucky moment who should arrive but King Merlin 's son , who had become uneasy at not receiving any news from his Ambassador , and so had started himself with a magnificent escort of a thousand horsemen , and thirty body-guards in gold and scarlet uniforms , to see what could have happened . As he was a hundred times handsomer and braver than the Ambassador , the Princess found she could like him very much . So the wedding was held at once , with so much splendour and rejoicing that all the previous misfortunes were quite forgotten . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- La Princesse Printaniere . Par Mme. d'Aulnoy . SORIA MORIA CASTLE THERE was once upon a time a couple of folks who had a son called Halvor . Ever since he had been a little boy he had been unwilling to do any work , and had just sat raking about among the ashes . His parents sent him away to learn several things , but Halvor stayed nowhere , for when he had been gone two or three days he always ran away from his master , hurried off home , and sat down in the chimney corner to grub among the ashes again . One day , however , a sea captain came and asked Halvor if he had n't a fancy to come with him and go to sea , and behold foreign lands . And Halvor had a fancy for that , so he was not long in getting ready . How long they sailed I have no idea , but after a long , long time there was a terrible storm , and when it was over and all had become calm again , they knew not where they were , for they had been driven away to a strange coast of which none of them had any knowledge . As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed , and Halvor asked the skipper to give him leave to go on shore to look about him , for he would much rather do that than lie there and sleep . ` Dost thou think that thou art fit to go where people can see thee ? ' said the skipper ; ` thou hast no clothes but those rags thou art going about in ! ' Halvor still begged for leave , and at last got it , but he was to come back at once if the wind began to rise . So he went on shore , and it was a delightful country ; whithersoever he went there were wide plains with fields and meadows , but as for people , there were none to be seen . The wind began to rise , but Halvor thought that he had not seen enough yet , and that he would like to walk about a little longer , to try if he could not meet somebody . So after a while he came to a great highway , which was so smooth that an egg might have been rolled along it without breaking . Halvor followed this , and when evening drew near he saw a big castle far away in the distance , and there were lights in it .
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