The king rejoiced beyond measure at the sight, but still he had
not gold enough, and he had the miller's daughter taken into a
still larger room full of straw, and said, "You must spin this,
too, in the course of this night, but if you succeed, you shall be
my wife."
"Even if she be a miller's daughter," thought he, "I could not
find a richer wife in the whole world."
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