` That is not my intention . ' ` Are you afraid ? ' ` No , Princess . ' ` What makes you so discreet , then ? ' But Michael was silent . XII Lina 's sisters had seen her talking to the little garden boy , and jeered at her for it . ` What prevents your marrying him ? ' asked the eldest , ` you would become a gardener too ; it is a charming profession . You could live in a cottage at the end of the park , and help your husband to draw up water from the well , and when we get up you could bring us our bouquets . ' The Princess Lina was very angry , and when the Star Gazer presented her bouquet , she received it in a disdainful manner . Michael behaved most respectfully . He never raised his eyes to her , but nearly all day she felt him at her side without ever seeing him . One day she made up her mind to tell everything to her eldest sister . ` What ! ' said she , ` this rogue knows our secret , and you never told me ! I must lose no time in getting rid of him . ' ` But how ? ' ` Why , by having him taken to the tower with the dungeons , of course . ' For this was the way that in old times beautiful princesses got rid of people who knew too much . But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not seem at all to relish this method of stopping the mouth of the gardener 's boy , who , after all , had said nothing to their father .
XIII It was agreed XXXXX the question should be submitted to the other ten sisters .
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