She would be bald.

She would be ugly.

She would fall into a deep sleep.

She would never speak.

to use it immediately

to use it when Melisande was older

to use it to make himself rich

to use it to make his kingdom powerful

the power of wealth

the importance of beauty

the triumph of cleverness and logic

the inevitability of fate

He knew the consequences of Malevola’s curse and argued logically against it.

He did calculations about the growth rate of Melisande's hair and cut-short her wish.

He figured out how to balance the scales to solve Melisande's hair problem.

He used his wish immediately to counteract Malevola’ curse.

The King said, “You will find your hair less easy to manage.”

“You have always cut the hair off the Princess. I just cut the Princess off the hair.”

“When my hair is no more than me, and I am no more than my hair, snip the scissors between me and it.”

“Everything Melisande was wearing had grown big along with her, so dangled from her golden girdle was a pair of scissors.”

question and answer

problem and solution

opinion and reason

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