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# Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/101/) — For the first time he realized how long it really was, and exclaimed:
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/102/) — “Well, it must be admitted that my nose \_is\_ too long!”
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/103/) — In an instant the crystal prison flew into a thousand splinters, and the old Fairy, taking the Dear Little Princess by the hand, said to the Prince:
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/104/) — “Now, say if you are not very much obliged to me.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/105/) — Much good it was for me to talk to you about your nose!
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/106/) — You would never have found out how extraordinary it was if it hadn’t hindered you from doing what you wanted to.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/107/) — You see how self-love keeps us from knowing our own defects of mind and body.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/108/) — Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests.”
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/109/) — Prince Hyacinth, whose nose was now just like anyone’s else, did not fail to profit by the lesson he had received.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/110/) — He married the Dear Little Princess, and they lived happily ever after.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/111/) — (1)
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/112/) — (1) Le Prince Desir et la Princesse Mignonne.
- [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/113/) — Par Madame Leprince de Beaumont.

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