I have never seen the sun , or the stars , or a horse , or a monkey , or a lion , except in pictures , and though the King and Queen tell me I am to be set free when I am twenty , I believe they only say it to keep me amused , when they never mean to let me out at all . ' And then she began to cry , and her nurse , and the nurse 's daughter , and the cradle-rocker , and the nursery-maid , who all loved her dearly , cried too for company , so that nothing could be heard but sobs and sighs . It was a scene of woe . When the Princess saw that they all pitied her she made up her mind to have her own way . So she declared that she would starve herself to death if they did not find some means of letting her see Fanfaronade 's grand entry into the town . ` If you really love me , ' she said , ` you will manage it , somehow or other , and the King and Queen need never know anything about it . ' 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 XXXXX see the Princess , and carried baskets of flowers and sweetmeats to shower upon her as she passed .
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