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answered. If the queen is convinced that it was not right 
to take a little man^s tree without his permission, I am 
sure she will not do so again. I am satisfied—I require 
no other recompense.’ His disinterestedness was ap¬ 
plauded; the assembly dispersed; and afterwards, I 
think, the queen sent him, privately, a present equal to 
the value of his tree. 
