The Princess and the Goblin

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should not ask the nurse to fulfil her promise this very morning, and go with her to find her grandmother as soon as she had had her breakfast. But she came to the conclusion that perhaps the lady would not be pleased if she took anyone to see her without first asking leave; especially as it was pretty evident, seeing she lived on pigeons' e

riends all dressing-time, and the princess in

ns' eggs taste like?' she said, as she was eating her egg-not quit

gg, and you shall judge for

might disturb the old lady in getting it, and that even

,' said the nurse-'first to want

nd the princess never minded any

the subject of their former strife, lest her nurse should offer to go before she had had her grandmother's pe

ay had the princess given her the smallest reason for anxiety, it had not yet come into her head to watch her mor

fferences-even when it rains. The princess ran through passage after passage, and could not find the stair of the tower. My own suspicion is that she had not gone up hig

. Suddenly it occurred to her that it was after having cried before that she had found he

he went, and was singing merrily before she reached the bottom. There, to her surprise, she found herself in the kitchen. Although she was not allowed to go there alone, her nurse had often taken her, and she was a great favourite with the servants. So there wa

all about her; but that fancy never lasted very long. She wondered much whether she should ever see her again, and thought it very sad not to have been able to