But he did not love her, though she was a good and lovely princess.
"But wouldn't you like to be a lovely princess for a while?"
If only he could have encountered this lovely young princess when she was herself!
And there, coming out to greet them, was a lovely princess they didn't recognize.
It represented a lovely princess in the very flower of her years.
"I don't mind being thought a lovely young princess so long as I am not expected to act like one."
The turtle turned out to be the daughter of Ryūgū-jō, a lovely princess.
And when they answered that nobody had ever before seen such lovely princesses he seemed quite annoyed.
There, upon a heap of soft cushions, sat his lovely Princess.
And whatever else happens to me, he thought, I am going to see more of that lovely, lonely Princess.