Florina Hegedüs
He was fast and got me by surprise. I'm not crying, but I revolt in my own way and I turned my face looking in his furious eyes. He would have crushed me. The perfumed letters written in stone that I found were proof. The devil made you look for them, you idiot, he yelled. And now you come to me with resons to divorce me. I have also looked another way, and you know what is like! When you want to find something, you will find it! He told me this in a softer voice. I know what is like, I'm looking, too. Whaat? And the second hit came, pair to the first one and to the searched reason to leave him.
Fabiola Stoi
Take three servants, two trusted advisers and a carriage and send them in kingdom, to the houses where unmarried young girls live. As a crucial test, each girl has to put my shoe on. My other shoe is at the one that accompanied me at the ball. She ran form the price's arms scared of that little cuckoo in the clock. Luckily I managed to get out of her out, otherwise I would have been standing in a mud puddle now. Yes, but at least I would have been together with my love. Now I'm all alone, I miss her. I will find her and bring her to the castle. This way the price will his lover.
Alex Stoicescu
He was keepping me at the door. He didn't seem drunk, although I cannot give my word. Iinsisted, I told him that I had already talked with Ileana, that we wanted to go out together and I came to take her. But her started talking about the dragon and the king: you have to fight with the dragon if you want the girl's hand. I gave him a piece of his own medicine. I asked him where si the dragon and adopted a fight position. But you are not the king? I asked. I'm the king and the dragon, he said, and in that moment I heard his wife laughing. Princess, come here faster! Your father will scare this one, too.
(Translated by Iuliana Mocanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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