Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Birthday of the Infanta
THE LITTLE RNCESS WALKED UP ANO DOWN THE TERRACE WITH HE COPAN ONG AND DANED HDE AND SEEK ROUND lesOE VAEES ON ORDINARYIH BUT HER BIRTHDAY WAS AN EXCEPTION DAYS SHE WAS ONLY ALLOWED TO PLAY WITH CHILDREN OF II HEROWN RANK THERE WAS A TATELY GRACE ABOUT THESE GLI SPANGH CHILDREN AS THEY GUIDED M ABOUT BUT THE INFANTA PLAYED WAS THE MOST GRACEFUL ALONE CF ALL AND THE MOST TASTEFULLY ATTIRED IO Two TINY SLIPPERS WITH BIG PNK ROSETTS PEEPEDCL BENEATH HER OREGS AG SHE THE WIDE PUFFEDGLEEVES OF HeR DRES WERE HEAVILY AEROIDERED WITH SILVER PINK AND PEARL WAG HER CREAT GAUZE FAN DO ANON HER HAR ta WHICH LIKE AN AUREOLE OF FADED GOLD GOOD OUT STIFFLY ROUNDLER DALF LITTLE
FROM A WINDOW IN THE PALACE THE SAD MELANCHOLY KING WATCHED THE BEHINO HIM STOOD BROTHER DON AND HIS CON FESSOR THE GRAND INQUS ITOR OFGRANADA WHOM HE HATED SADDER EVEN THAN USUAL WAS THE KING HADCOME FROM THE GAY COUNTRY OF FRANCE AND HAD WITHERED AWAY IN THE BRE SPLENDOUR OF THE SPANISH COLRT RR AS HE LOOKED AT THE INFANTA GUEEN BAHN HER FAN OTHER A WOEur AAA SHE PIED JUST SOGREAT HAD BEEN HIS LOVE FOR AFTER THE BIRTH OF HER CHILD HE HAD HEREMBALMED BY A MOORIGH PHYSICIAN AND HER BODY WAS STILL LYING IN THE BLACK MARBLE CHAPEL OF THE PALACE JUST AS THE MONKS HAD BORNE HER IN NEARLY TWELVE YEARS AGO ONCE AVERY MONTH THE KING WENT IN AND KNELT BY HERSIDE CALLING OUT M RAINA M 1 REINA AND GOME TIMES IN A WILD AGONY OF GRIEF HE WOULD TRY TO WAKE BY HIS MAD KISSEs THE COLD PAINTED
TODAY HE SEEMED TO SEE HER AGAIN AS HE HAD SEEN HER FIRST WHEN HE WAS BUT FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE ANOSHE STILL YOUNGER CC THEY HAD BEEN FORMALL DETROIHED ON THAT CCCASION BY THE PAPAL NUNCIO IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FRENCHKING AND ALL THE COURT a AND HE HAD RETURNED TO THE FSCURIAL SPRN BEARN WITH HIM A LITTLE RANGLETON OF YELLON LATER ON HAD FOLLOWED THE MARRIAGE AND A GLAND PUBLIC ENTRY INTO MADRID WITH THE RITTANY CUSTOMAY CELEBRATION OF HIGH MASS a of AP HAIR AND A MORE THAN USUALLY GOLBMW AUTO DA FE IN WHICH NEARLY THREE HUNDRED HERETICS AMONGEST WHOM WERE MANY ENGLISHMEN HAD BEEN DELIVERED OVER TO THE SECULAR ARM TO BE EURNED CERTAINLY HE LONED HER MADLY
WHEN SHE DED HE WAS FOR A TME LIKE ONE BEEFT OF REASON INDEED THERE IS NO DOUBT HE WOLD FORMALLY AEDCATED AND RETIRED TO THE GREAT TRAPPST ONAGER HAD HE NOT BEEN AFRAID WHOSE CRUELTY EVEN IN OF HAVING CAUSED THE TO LEAVE THE LTTLE INFANTA SPAIN WAS NOTORCUS AND WHO QUEENS DEATH BY MEANS OFA AT THE MEREY CF HIS BROTHER WAs USPECTED BY MAN PAIR OF POISONED GOVES AND WHEN OFFERED THE HANO LeeADE THE AMBASSADORS TO AVAN APTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE THREE YEARS OF PUBLIC OF THE LOVELY ARCHOCHES OF TELL THER MAGNER THAT THE KING MOURNING HE WOULD NEVER BOHEMIA HIS NICE IN MARATS OF SPAIN WAS ALREADY WEDDED SUFFER HIS MINISTERS TO SPEAK TOCORROW AEOUT AN NEW ALANCE
