Each one had two heads , eight feet , and four rows of teeth , and their skins were as hard as turtle shells , and were bright red . At this dreadful sight , the poor Queen , who was trembling like a dove when it sees a hawk , cried out as loud as she could , `` Oh ! dear Mr. Dwarf , Bellissima shall marry you . '' `` Oh , indeed ! '' said he disdainfully . `` Bellissima is pretty enough , but I do n't particularly want to marry her -- you can keep her . '' `` Oh ! noble sir , '' said the Queen in great distress , `` do not refuse her . She is the most charming Princess in the world . '' `` Oh ! well , '' he replied , `` out of charity I will take her ; but be sure and do n't forget that she is mine . '' As he spoke a little door opened in the trunk of the orange tree , in rushed the Queen , only just in time , and the door shut with a bang in the faces of the lions . The Queen was so confused that at first she did not notice another little door in the orange tree , but presently it opened and she found herself in a field of thistles and nettles . It was encircled by a muddy ditch , and a little further on was a tiny thatched cottage , out of which came the Yellow Dwarf with a very jaunty air . He wore wooden shoes and a little yellow coat , and as he had no hair and very long ears he looked altogether a shocking little object . `` I am delighted , '' said he to the Queen , `` that , as you are to be my mother-in-law , you should see the little house in which your Bellissima will live with me . With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can ride whenever she likes ; under this humble roof no weather can hurt her ; she will drink the water of this brook and eat frogs -- which grow very fat about here ; and then she will have me always with her , handsome , agreeable , and gay as you see me now . For if her shadow stays by her more closely than I do I shall be surprised . '' The unhappy Queen , seeing all at once what a miserable life her daughter would have with this Dwarf could not bear the idea , and fell down insensible without saying a word . When she revived she found to her great surprise that she was lying in her own bed at home , and , what was more , that she had on the loveliest lace night cap that she had ever seen in her life .
At first she thought that all her adventures , the terrible lions , and her promise to the Yellow Dwarf that he should marry Bellissima , must have been a dream , but there was the new cap with its beautiful ribbon and lace XXXXX remind her that it was all true , which made her so unhappy that she could neither eat , drink , nor sleep for thinking of it .
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