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She then went up to one of the Trolls and pulled him gently by the sleeve. He did not look up, but his pen slightly slackened its speed. "What do you want?" he enquired in an uninterested voice. "Make haste, for I have no time to spare!" "What rude people they all are!" thought the Princess. "The Sea-Troll said you would tell me how to find my golden shoe," she continued aloud.
"Your name and business!" he enquired, in a high thin voice. "I am Princess Sidigunda, seeking my golden shoe, and I bring this from the Sea-Troll," said the Princess courageously. "Will you tell me where I am to find the Trolls of the Palace?" The fish handed the shell back sulkily, and pointed up the street.
"How am I to start, and where am I to go to?" asked the Princess, trying not to feel frightened at the prospect before her. "Launch your shoe as a boat, and float on till you meet the Sea-Troll, who is an old friend of mine. Explain your errand to him, and say I begged him to direct you and give you a passport. And now one last word before I leave you.
"I wish the Sea-Troll would mind his own business!" said the little brown man vindictively. "He's always distracting us from our State business with all sorts of messages." "Are you working for the State?" enquired Sidigunda. "Of course! I thought every oyster knew that," replied the brown Troll. "Are they particularly uneducated, then?" asked the Princess.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" cried the old man in a gruff voice. The Princess trembled; but she seized her veil and the little flask, and holding them out she repeated her Godfather's message. "I'll see what I can do, though really these children wear me out!" said the Sea-Troll. "I can't keep my eye on all of them at once!
"I wonder when I shall meet the Sea-Troll and what he's like," thought Princess Sidigunda. "I suppose I shall be able to recognize him somehow." As she thought this, she noticed that some object was rapidly floating towards her.
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