`` You are right , Princess , '' said Grabugeon , coming forward , `` to love such a faithful slave as Patypata ; she is of more use to you than I am , I offer you my tongue and my heart most willingly , especially as I wish to make a great name for myself in Goblin Land . '' `` No , no , my little Grabugeon , '' replied Miranda , `` I can not bear the thought of taking your life . '' `` Such a good little dog as I am , '' cried Tintin , `` could not think of letting either of you die for his mistress . If anyone is to die for her it must be me . '' And then began a great dispute between Patypata , Grabugeon , and Tintin , and they came to high words , until at last Grabugeon , who was quicker than the others , ran up to the very top of the nearest tree , and let herself fall , head first , to the ground , and there she lay -- quite dead ! The Princess was very sorry , but as Grabugeon was really dead , she allowed the Captain of the Guard to take her tongue ; but , alas ! it was such a little one -- not bigger than the Princess 's thumb -- that they decided sorrowfully that it was of no use at all : the King would not have been taken in by it for a moment ! `` Alas ! my little monkey , '' cried the Princess , `` I have lost you , and yet I am no better off than I was before . '' `` The honor of saving your life is to be mine , '' interrupted Patypata , and , before they could prevent her , she had picked up a knife and cut her head off in an instant . But when the Captain of the Guard would have taken her tongue it turned out to be quite black , so that would not have deceived the King either . `` Am I not unlucky ? '' cried the poor Princess ; `` I lose everything I love , and am none the better for it . '' `` If you had accepted my offer , '' said Tintin , `` you would only have had me to regret , and I should have had all your gratitude . '' Miranda kissed her little dog , crying so bitterly , that at last she could bear it no longer , and turned away into the forest . When she looked back the Captain of the Guard was gone , and she was alone , except for Patypata , Grabugeon , and Tintin , who lay upon the ground . She could not leave the place until she had buried them in a pretty little mossy grave at the foot of a tree , and she wrote their names upon the bark of the tree , and how they had all died to save her life . And then she began to think where she could go for safety -- for this forest was so close to her father 's castle that she might be seen and recognized by the first passer-by , and , besides that , it was full of lions and wolves , who would have snapped up a princess just as soon as a stray chicken . So she began to walk as fast as she could , but the forest was so large and the sun was so hot that she nearly died of heat and terror and fatigue ; look which way she would there seemed to be no end to the forest , and she was so frightened that she fancied every minute that she heard the King running after her to kill her . You may imagine how miserable she was , and how she cried as she went on , not knowing which path to follow , and with the thorny bushes scratching her dreadfully and tearing her pretty frock to pieces .
At last she heard the bleating of a sheep , and said XXXXX herself : `` No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks ; they will show me the way to some village where I can live disguised as a peasant girl .
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