He is a wise man, said she to herselfIt is well; and he dances delightfullythat is also good; but has he solid knowledge? That is just as important! He must be examined.
So she began, by degrees, to question him about the most difficult things she could think of, and which she herself could not have answered; so that the shadow made a strange face.
You cannot answer these questions? said the princess.
They belong to my childhoods learning, said the shadow. I really believe my shadow, by the door there, can answer them!
Your shadow! said the princess. That would indeed be marvellous!
I will not say for a certainty that he can, said the shadow, but I think so; he has now followed me for so many years, and listened to my conversation-I should think it possible. But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humorand he must be so to answer wellhe must be treated quite like a man.
Oh! I like that! said the princess.
So she went to the learned man by the door, and she spoke to him about the sun and the moon, and about persons out of and in the world, and he answered with wisdom and prudence.
What a man that must be who has so wise a shadow! thought she. It will be a real blessing to my people and kingdom if I choose him for my consortI will do it!
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