The Brown Fairy Book, part 1 · page 21 2101No one can answer er her riddle, and she has done to death many men who had had no pleasure in life nor tasted its charms.102God forbid that your spring also should be ravaged by the autumn winds of martyrdom.”103All his urgency, however, had no effect in making the prince withdraw.104At length it was settled between them that three days should be given to pleasant hospitality and that then should follow what had to be said and done.105Then the prince went to his own quarters and was treated as became his station.1 2next →The Brown Fairy Book, part 2↑ back to The Brown Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/page/2/