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Updated: June 28, 2025
He carried his scythe and sand-glass. He glanced neither to left nor right. He went out at the other door! We have seen how time passed in the castle where Everychild and his companions had come to dwell. Now let us see what followed. On a beautiful summer day Everychild and the Sleeping Beauty sat in the great room of the golden furniture and the fire place and the alcove.
It was here that Everychild interfered. "Maybe he's a good giant," he said to Jack. And to the giant he added courteously, "Won't you sit down and rest awhile, Will o'Dreams?" "I thank you," responded the giant; and he sat down by the side of Everychild.
Without even a hint of ceremony Hansel flung himself forward on his stomach and seized upon the tarts greedily. Even Grettel could not conceal her desire for food, and she exclaimed joyously, "Oh, tarts! Could I have one?" "Why not?" replied Jack lightly; whereupon Everychild placed a number of the tarts in her lap, and she began to eat heartily.
I don't know what's the matter with them these days children. When I was young I had to work. I expected nothing less. And I tell mine what was good enough for me is good enough for them." She made this statement as if she hadn't left a single thing to be said. It seemed rather obscure to Everychild. He tried to think of a more agreeable subject. He looked the Old Woman's house over, up and down.
A naked little Cupid knelt on her pillow, his wings aloft, his eyes intently inspecting her closed eyelids. Everychild seemed really to lose control of himself. He gazed, and then he advanced in a manner so determined that Cinderella drew back, leaving him alone with the sleeper, save for the Cupid on the pillow and the lady of honor asleep in her chair.
"There was such a long time that I thought I feared you a little," he continued, " when it seemed better to stand quite apart from you and look at you from a distance. But you've been so good a friend that now at last . . ." "At last, Everychild?" He timidly sought her hand; and having found it he stood with downcast eyes. "At last I know I I love you!"
And then Everychild realized that by some strange process two persons had entered the room. He was almost afraid to look at the two strange persons, because their being there seemed very mysterious, and he had the thought that if he looked at them steadily they might vanish. He knew at once that they were not to be treated just as if they were ordinary persons.
"It is the Sleeping Beauty!" exclaimed Everychild. Somehow or other he knew positively. He knelt down beside her and gazed at her reverently. Slowly and gently he reached for the hand nearest him. He took it into his own; and then he never could have told what put it into his head to do so! he shyly kissed the beautiful hand. And the Sleeping Beauty? She sighed and opened her eyes.
Everychild and his companions were now journeying through a country where the evenings were very long; and thus it chanced that after they had all departed from the Old Woman who lived in a shoe, there was still a considerable period of daylight before them.
Then the hangings fell back into place and the prince was seen no more. So it went on until all the children had been restored to their parents all save Everychild. And now Truth paused before the curtain whereon the likeness of Everychild's parents was painted. "Parents of Everychild, appear!" she cried. They came, subdued, saddened, hand in hand. And Truth addressed them.
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