“Inside, however, everything was lighted up with thousands and thousands of candles, and his wife was clad in gold, and she was sitting on a much higher throne, and had three great golden crowns on, and round about her there was much ecclesiastical splendour ; and on both sides of her was a row of candles the largest of which was as tall as the very tallest tower, down to the very smallest kitchen candle, and all the em- perors and…”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 19 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan