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The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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Charming had given her.

'Ho, ho!' said Turritella, those are pretty bits of glass. I
suppose you would like five silver pieces for them.'

'Show them to someone who understands such things, Madam,'
answered the Queen; 'after that we can decide upon the price.'

Turritella, who really loved King Charming as much as she could
love anybody, and was always delighted to get a chance of talking
to him, now showed him the bracelets, asking how much he
considered them worth. As soon as he saw them he remembered those
he had given to Fiordelisa, and turned very pale and sighed
deeply, and fell into such sad thought that he quite forgot to
answer her. Presently she asked him again, and then he said, with
a great effort:

'I believe these bracelets are worth as much as my kingdom. I
thought there was only one such pair in the world; but here, it
seems, is another.'

Then Turritella went back to the Queen, and asked her what was
the lowest price she would take for them.

'More than you would find it easy to pay, Madam,' answered she;
'but if you will manage for me to sleep one night in the Chamber
of Echoes, I will give you the emeralds.'

'By all means, my little kitchen-maid,' said Turritella, highly
delighted.
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