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Chapter Thirty-Four

The next morning, the king was having breakfast with his
son and daughter in a corner of one of the gardens of the
palace.
They talked until the king said, “Florrie.”
“What, Father?” she asked.
He replied, “I have made a decision and I want to
know what you think.”
“What is it, Father?” she asked.
He replied, “I want you to marry Leader Hammond
or his brother Jarvis.”
The princess smiled with extreme joy.
While the scarred prince shouted angrily, “How can
you let my sister marry one of these savages?”
The father shouted angrily, “Do not interfere with
something that does not concern you.”
The prince looked shyly to the ground, getting
angrier because his father reproached him, which had rarely
ever happened, and that happened because of those who
wounded him in the neck and almost killed him.