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Speaker 1: Today's story is about a very jealous, angry queen who

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Speaker 1: Whenever another beautiful girl comes along, she sends them away.

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Speaker 1: The Princess of the Flowery Isles is a kind, well

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Speaker 1: when she is presented to the Queen of all the Isles,

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Speaker 1: Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles. There once

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Speaker 1: lived a queen who ruled over the Flowery Isles, whose husband,

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Speaker 1: to her extreme grief, had died a few years after

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Speaker 1: their marriage. On being left a widow, she devoted herself

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Speaker 1: almost entirely to the education of her DEFs, two charming princesses.

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Speaker 1: Her only children, The elder of them was so lovely

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Speaker 1: that as she grew up, her mother greatly feared she

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Speaker 1: would excite the jealousy of the Queen of all the Isles,

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Speaker 1: who prided herself on being the most beautiful woman in

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Speaker 1: charms in order the better to gratify her vanity. She

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Speaker 1: had urged the King, her husband, to make war on

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Speaker 1: to please her, the only conditions he imposed on any

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Speaker 1: of his queen. The Queen of the Flowery Isles was

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Speaker 1: aware of this law was fully determined to present her

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Speaker 1: Of course, she thought in her own mind, accepting myself

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Speaker 1: she warned her daughter that she was in some great

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Speaker 1: When she noticed the little dog was pulling at her dress,

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Speaker 1: and the dog at once nestled at her feet. Tired

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Speaker 1: As the princess approached the palace, she noticed that everyone

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Speaker 1: She asked for him to be shown into a room

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Speaker 1: to banish him from the kingdom without seeing the Queen again.

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Speaker 1: After six months the Queen's anger, not being yet satisfied,

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Speaker 1: I now come to offer you a heart, which has

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Speaker 1: A few days later, a herald was sent through the

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Speaker 1: They lived happily for many years and ruled their people well.

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Speaker 1: And as for the bad queen, whose vanity and jealousy

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Speaker 1: power away or a punishments, good night, Sleep tight.

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Speaker 2: This exinalition on the stone reckless dream and.

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Speaker 3: You're the only one.

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Speaker 2: This time swo eggs of doss.

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Speaker 3: Not I've spraid of God.

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Speaker 3: You're the only one I could love, the only one I.

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Speaker 2: Could like this.

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Speaker 1: Only one.

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