CHAPTER X.
[Original]
NOW you must be told that the King of that country had a daughter as lovely as the day, who had never laughed in all her life!
She was as sad and sorry as the mournful Bell that rings for a death, and so they called her the Passing Belle; it was a sort of joke. *
* The French country people call the Passing Bell La
Dolente, and this unhappy Princess they named La Belle
Dolente. If any child cannot understand this, she may
consult her nice French grammar, and her French and English
dictionary, and turn it over in her mind till next
Christmas.