英语有声儿童童话故事 豌豆公主 第2章

The next morning, she was askedhow she had slept. “Oh, very badly indeed!” she replied. “I have scarcelyclosed my eyes the whole night through. I do not know what was in my bed, but Ihad something hard under me, and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me somuch!”

Now it was plain that the ladymust be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the little pea throughthe twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess couldhave had such a delicate sense of feeling.

The Prince implored her tobe his wife; being now convinced that he had finally found a realPrincess, and was delighted when she accepted. The pea was preserved forhistory in the kingdom’s museum, where it still can be seen.

The wedding of the Prince andPrincess was celebrated throughout the kingdom, and they lived happily everafter.