` Sire , ' they answered , ` if she were as pretty that would do very well . ' ` That 's true , ' said the King ; ' I for one shall be quite satisfied if she is . Let us go and meet her . ' For they knew by the uproar that she had arrived , but they could not tell what all the shouting was about . The King thought he could hear the words : ` How ugly she is ! How ugly she is ! ' and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the Princess was bringing with her . It never occurred to him that they could apply to the bride herself . The Princess Rosette 's portrait was carried at the head of the procession , and after it walked the King surrounded by his courtiers . He was all impatience to see the lovely Princess , but when he caught sight of the nurse 's daughter he was furiously angry , and would not advance another step . For she was really ugly enough to have frightened anybody . ` What ! ' he cried , ` have the two rascals who are my prisoners dared to play me such a trick as this ? Do they propose that I shall marry this hideous creature ? Let her be shut up in my great tower , with her nurse and those who brought her here ; and as for them , I will have their heads cut off . ' Meanwhile the King and the Prince , who knew that their sister must have arrived , had made themselves smart , and sat expecting every minute to be summoned to greet her . So when the gaoler came with soldiers , and carried them down into a black dungeon which swarmed with toads and bats , and where they were up to their necks in water , nobody could have been more surprised and dismayed than they were . ` This is a dismal kind of wedding , ' they said ; ` what can have happened that we should be treated like this ? They must mean to kill us . ' And this idea annoyed them very much .
Three days passed before they heard any news , and then the King XXXXX the Peacocks came and berated them through a hole in the wall .
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