--- title: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7 — The Crimson Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “No, not even to you, your Majesty,” replied he. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7 # The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/101/) — The person who has found out the puzzle is the son of a poor woman, who, if he lives, will become King of Hungary. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/102/) — Therefore, if you want the crown yourself, you must get him here and kill him.” - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/103/) — After this conversation another letter was written to the Court of Hungary, saying that if the youth, now in the palace, was not sent to Turkey within three days, a large army would cross the border. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/104/) — The king’s heart was sorrowful as he read, for he was grateful to the lad for what he had done to help him; but the boy only laughed, and bade the king fear nothing, but to search the town instantly for two youths just like each other, and he would paint himself a mask that was just like them. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/105/) — And the sword at his side clanked loudly. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/106/) — After a long search twin brothers were found, so exactly resembling each other that even their own mother could not tell the difference. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/107/) — The youth painted a mask that was the precise copy of them, and when he had put it on, no one would have known one boy from the other. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/108/) — They set out at once for the Sultan’s palace, and when they reached it, they were taken straight into his presence. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/109/) — He made a sign for them to come near; they all bowed low in greeting. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/110/) — He asked them about their journey; they answered his questions all together, and in the same words. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/111/) — If one sat down to supper, the others sat down at the same instant. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/112/) — When one got up, the others got up too, as if there had been only one body between them. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/113/) — The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told his aunt that he would not be so cruel as to kill all three. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/) **2** - ← previous: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/) - next →: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/)