Now the Emperor he to see it while it still on the loom. So, accompanied by a number of his selected , among whom the two faithful who had already seen the imaginary stuff, he visit the crafty , who working away as hard as ever they could at the empty loom.
"It is magnificent!" said both the honest . "Only see, your Majesty, what a design! What !" And they the empty loom, for they no doubt the the stuff.
"What!" thought the Emperor; "I see nothing at all! This is terrible! ? Emperor? Why, nothing worse me!"
"Oh, it is beautiful!" said the Emperor. "It has my highest approval!" and he his satisfaction as he at the empty loom. Nothing him to say that he anything.
The whole suite and , but nothing more than all the . However, they all his Majesty, "It is very beautiful!" and they him to wear a suit made of this wonderful cloth on the occasion of a great procession which just about to take place. "It is magnificent! gorgeous! exce!lent!" went from mouth to mouth; they were all equally delighted with it. The Emperor gave each of the an order of knighthood to be worn in their and the title of "Gentlemen ."
The sat up the whole night, before the day on which the procession was to take place, burning sixteen ; so that people might see how anxious they to get the Emperor's new ready. They to take the stuff off the loom. They in the air with a huge pair of scissors, and they with needles without any thread in them. At last they , "Now the Emperor's new clothes are ready!"
The Emperor, with his grandest , went to them himself, and both the raised one arm in the air, as if they were something, and said: "See, these are the , this is the coat, here is the mantle!" and so on. "It is as light as a spider's web. One one nothing on, but that is the very beauty of it!"
"Yes," said all the , but they anything, for there nothing to see.
"Will your imperial majesty be graciously pleased to take off your ," said the , "so that we the new ones, along here before the great mirror."
The Emperor took off all his , and the to give him one article of dress after the other, of the new which they to make. They fasten something round his waist and to something; this the train, and the Emperor in front of the mirror.
"How well his majesty in the new ! How becoming they are!" cried all the people around. "What a design, and what ! They are most gorgeous !"
"The canopy is waiting outside which is to be carried over your majesty in the procession," said the master of the .
"Well, I am quite ready," said the Emperor. "Don't the fit well?" and then he again in front of the mirror, so that he to be looking at his grand .
The who were to carry the train and from the ground with both , and they walked along with their in the air. They not let it appear that they see anything.
Then the Emperor walked along in the procession under the gorgeous canopy, and everybody in the and at the exclaimed "How beautiful the Emperor's new are! What a splendid train! And they fit to perfection!" Nobody that he , for then he his post, or else he was a fool.
None of the Emperor's had been so successful before.
"But he has got nothing on," said a little child.
"Oh, listen to the innocent," said its father; and one person whispered to the other what the child had said.
"He has nothing on; a child says he has nothing on!"
"But he has nothing on!" at last cried all the people.
The Emperor , for he it true, but he "the procession must go on now," so he himself stiffer than ever, and the chamberlains the invisible train.