Then the nurse and all the others cried harder than ever , and said everything they could think of to turn the Princess from her idea . But the more they said the more determined she was , and at last they consented to make a tiny hole in the tower on the side that looked towards the city gates . After scratching and scraping all day and all night , they presently made a hole through which they could , with great difficulty , push a very slender needle , and out of this the Princess looked at the daylight for the first time . She was so dazzled and delighted by what she saw , that there she stayed , never taking her eyes away from the peep-hole for a single minute , until presently the ambassador 's procession appeared in sight . At the head of it rode Fanfaronade himself upon a white horse , which pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets . Nothing could have been more splendid than the ambassador 's attire . His coat was nearly hidden under an embroidery of pearls and diamonds , his boots were solid gold , and from his helmet floated scarlet plumes . At the sight of him the Princess lost her wits entirely , and determined that Fanfaronade and nobody else would she marry . ` It is quite impossible , ' she said , ` that his master should be half as handsome and delightful . I am not ambitious , and having spent all my life in this tedious tower , anything -- even a house in the country -- will seem a delightful change . I am sure that bread and water shared with Fanfaronade will please me far better than roast chicken and sweetmeats with anybody else . ' And so she went on talk , talk , talking , until her waiting-women wondered where she got it all from . But when they tried to stop her , and represented that her high rank made it perfectly impossible that she should do any such thing , she would not listen , and ordered them to be silent . As soon as the ambassador arrived at the palace , the Queen started to fetch her daughter . All the streets were spread with carpets , and the windows were full of ladies who were waiting to see the Princess , and carried baskets of flowers and sweetmeats to shower upon her as she passed . They had hardly begun to get the Princess ready when a dwarf arrived , mounted upon an elephant . He came from the five fairies , and brought for the Princess a crown , a sceptre , and a robe of golden brocade , with a petticoat marvellously embroidered with butterflies ' wings . They also sent a casket of jewels , so splendid that no one had ever seen anything like it before , and the Queen was perfectly dazzled when she opened it . But the Princess scarcely gave a glance to any of these treasures , for she thought of nothing but Fanfaronade . The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece , and decorated with so many ribbons that it was hardly possible to see him at all .
The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel XXXXX a distaff of cedar wood , and the Queen said she must look through her treasures and find something very charming to send them also .
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