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He broke out laughing. 'They are much mistaken, he said, 'if they fancy they could keep Lina and a miner in any house in Gwyntystorm even if they built up doors and windows. With that he shouldered his mattock. But Derba begged him not to make a hole in her house just yet. She had plenty for breakfast, she said, and before it was time for dinner they would know what the people meant by it.
If you want MY dog, you must take her. 'Then we shall set the house on fire, and burn witch and all. 'It will go hard with us but we shall kill a few dozen of you first, cried Curdie. 'We're not the least afraid of you. With that Curdie turned to Derba, and said: 'Don't be frightened. I have a strong feeling that all will be well.
He raised her in his, and she kissed him. 'And my Curdie too! she said. Thereafter the people called him Prince Conrad; but the king always called him either just Curdie, or my miner boy. They sat down to supper, and Derba and the knight and the housemaid waited, and Barbara sat at the king's left hand.
Alongside the beasts walked Derba carrying Barbara their refuge the mountains, should the cause of the king be lost; as soon as they were over the river they turned aside to ascend the Cliff, and there awaited the forging of the day's history. Then first Curdie saw that the housemaid, whom they had all forgotten, was following, mounted on the great red horse, and seated in the royal saddle.
Her face was radiant with joy, the joy overshadowed by a faint mist as of unfulfilment. The king rose and kneeled on one knee before her. All kneeled in like homage. Then the king would have yielded her his royal chair. But she made them all sit down, and with her own hands placed at the table seats for Derba and the page. Then in ruby crown and royal purple she served them all. The End
'Now that was the stone, said he, 'over which I had fallen three times within the last month: could it be by fair means he broke that to pieces at the first blow? Just to make up my mind on that point I tried his own hammer against a stone in the gate; it nearly broke both my arms, and loosened half the teeth in my head! Derba and Barbara
In the morning, however, Derba came to him in great agitation, and said they had fastened up the door, so that she could not get out. Curdie rose immediately and went with her: they found that not only the door, but every window in the house was so secured on the outside that it was impossible to open one of them without using great force. Poor Derba looked anxiously in Curdie's face.
The straits of isolation were soon found in the palace: its invalids were requiring stronger food, and what was to be done? For if the butchers sent meat to the palace, was it not likely enough to be poisoned? Curdie said to Derba he would think of some plan before morning. But that same night, as soon as it was dark, Lina came to her master, and let him understand she wanted to go out.
The lord chancellor was only too glad to share a mattress with a stableboy, and steal his bare feet under his jacket. In the morning Curdie appeared, and the outcasts were in terror, thinking he had come after them again. But he took no notice of them: his object was to request Derba to go to the palace: the king required her services.
Surely no trouble will come to you for being good to strangers. 'But the poor dog! said Derba. Now Curdie and Lina understood each other more than a little by this time, and not only had he seen that she understood the proclamation, but when she looked up at him after it was read, it was with such a grin, and such a yellow flash, that he saw also she was determined to take care of herself.
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