So the last Fairy , who had not yet given her gift , tried to mend matters by promising the Princess a long and happy life after the fatal time was over . At this Carabosse laughed maliciously , and climbed away up the chimney , leaving them all in great consternation , and especially the Queen . However , she entertained the fairies splendidly , and gave them beautiful ribbons , of which they are very fond , in addition to the other presents . When they were going away the oldest Fairy said that they were of opinion that it would be best to shut the Princess up in some place , with her waiting-women , so that she might not see anyone else until she was twenty years old . So the King had a tower built on purpose . It had no windows , so it was lighted with wax candles , and the only way into it was by an underground passage , which had iron doors only twenty feet apart , and guards were posted everywhere . The Princess had been named Mayblossom , because she was as fresh and blooming as Spring itself , and she grew up tall and beautiful , and everything she did and said was charming . Every time the King and Queen came to see her they were more delighted with her than before , but though she was weary of the tower , and often begged them to take her away from it , they always refused . The Princess 's nurse , who had never left her , sometimes told her about the world outside the tower , and though the Princess had never seen anything for herself , yet she always understood exactly , thanks to the second Fairy 's gift . Often the King said to the Queen : ` We were cleverer than Carabosse after all . Our Mayblossom will be happy in spite of her predictions . ' And the Queen laughed until she was tired at the idea of having outwitted the old Fairy . They had caused the Princess 's portrait to be painted and sent to all the neighbouring Courts , for in four days she would have completed her twentieth year , and it was time to decide whom she should marry . All the town was rejoicing at the thought of the Princess 's approaching freedom , and when the news came that King Merlin was sending his ambassador to ask her in marriage for his son , they were still more delighted . The nurse , who kept the Princess informed of everything that went forward in the town , did not fail to repeat the news that so nearly concerned her , and gave such a description of the splendour in which the ambassador Fanfaronade would enter the town , that the Princess was wild to see the procession for herself . ` What an unhappy creature I am , ' she cried , ` to be shut up in this dismal tower as if I had committed some crime ! I have never seen the sun , or the stars , or a horse , or a monkey , or a lion , except in pictures , and though the King and Queen tell me I am to be set free when I am twenty , I believe they only say it to keep me amused , when they never mean to let me out at all . ' And then she began to cry , and her nurse , and the nurse 's daughter , and the cradle-rocker , and the nursery-maid , who all loved her dearly , cried too for company , so that nothing could be heard but sobs and sighs . It was a scene of woe . When the Princess saw that they all pitied her she made up her mind to have her own way .
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