Hans Christian Andersen - The Princess and the Pea (1835)

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They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

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And so they could see she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdowns.

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