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A little peasant girl lay ill in her bed. And in heaven God called an angel to His side and bade her go down to earth and dance before the little girl and amuse her. But the angel thought it unbecoming to her dignity to dance before the people of the earth.
And God knew the proud thoughts of the angel and ordained a punishment for her. She was born into the world of men and became a little child there -- a princess in a royal house -- and she forgot all that she had known of heaven and her former life, forgot even her own name.