The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3 · page 21 2101Here are the rings you gave to my mother, and here is the cross, and these will prove if I am your son or not.’102As he spoke the young man laid the jewels at the feet of the king, and the nobles and the judges pressed round to examine them.103The king alone did not move from his seat, for he had forgotten the hall of justice and all about him, and saw only the apple-orchard, as it was twenty years ago, and the beautiful girl playing at ball.104A sudden silence round him made him look up, and he found the eyes of the assembly fixed on him.1 2← previousThe Lilac Fairy Book, part 2next →The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4↑ back to The Lilac Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/page/2/