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Then she pulled her husband down into her ar she could "I love you"
And she kissed hiue
The sword pressed very tightly against Jack’s throat, but still he spoke up bravely
"I would tell you on the rings, e," he said, "but, alas, you would not believebellowed, but Jack raised his voice to be heard over the royal rage "Besides, it does not s What matters is who holds the was silent and every eye in the royal banquet hall turned to Princess Surcease She seemed as surprised as any when she reached into the little jeweled bag that hung fro She placed the already on her palether
"Princess Surcease has the rings," Jack said "And it seeht to pick her own husband"
Well, the king he hawed, but in the end he had to admit that Jack did have a point
"Who will you choose to wed,asked "There are men here from all corners of the world Rich men, brave men, men so handsome the ladies shen they ride by Now tell me, which of them will be your husband?"
"None" Princess Surcease ss, and said, "I ed Jack the Fool and no other, for he h and I love him"
And then before the stunned eyes of the entire court and her royal father, she bent and kissed Jack the Fool, right on his long, curved nose
What a strange thing happened then! For Jack began to grow, his legs and arthened and thickened, and his nose and chin receded into their norain, tall and strong, and since he wore the wonderful suit of night and wind and carried the sharpest blade in all the world, well, you can iht indeed
But poor Princess Surcease did not like this handsoer who stood so tall before her She wept and cried, "Oh, where is my Jack? Oh, where is my sweet fool?"
Jack knelt before the princess and took her little hands between his big ones He leaned his head close to hers and whispered so only she could hear, "I am your sweet fool,to ladly take on that twisted, horrible forain, if only to see you smile"
And at these words, the princess did sed so nized him, his voice had not It was the voice of Jack the Fool, the man she loved
The man she’d chosen to marry