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Updated: June 28, 2025
I've sat for hours studying her, trying to understand her. I used to think the fault was all mine." "It does make you feel that way, doesn't it?" said Everychild. "And sometimes I've thought fathers were as bad as mothers about making you feel so." Tom lapsed into a dreamy mood. "Fathers . . . I don't remember much about my father," he said.
"Ah, those poor children!" exclaimed Cinderella. "I've heard how their parents took them out into the woods to lose them. I'm surprised they ever went back." "They're not going back again. They're going with me. With me and the giant and " "But where?" interrupted Cinderella. "And you shall go with us," concluded Everychild. "That's what I wanted to tell you. We're going to find the truth."
They all looked at Cinderella, who hesitated and then said reluctantly "If I could just have a little marmalade and seed-cake " The giant said nothing at all; and at last Everychild spoke: "I'm not particular," he said. "Just anything that happens to be convenient." This response pleased Aladdin best of all. He said, "Well, I'll wish for you."
That form in the gloom was perfectly motionless; and for a time Everychild tried to convince himself that here was simply another delusion that certain old articles of furniture or clothing had been so arranged as to suggest the form of a human being. But no, this could scarcely be. Every outline of the figure was too real. And besides, the person on the chest now moved slightly.
"It will be but a short journey," she said; and it seemed to Everychild that she spoke sadly. "Go with him, and be sure you shall make a speedy return." He would have gone, then. Already he was putting great energy into his feet, that he might overtake the giant. But the Masked Lady detained him. "A word," she said. "Be patient with him, and comfort him, whatever may befall.
Everychild listened to him speaking in this strain on one occasion, and the effect upon him was unbelievable. Everything seemed different to him. The golden furniture in the finest room in the castle no longer seemed to be of gold. It was merely painted yellow, he thought. Even the Sleeping Beauty seemed changed in his eyes. Her face did not seem so perfect, after all!
"Ah, how good it is to have them!" he said at last with a great sigh; and soon after he had sunk into deep and refreshing slumber. Nor were the others long in following his example. They had traveled far; and it seemed good to rest now, especially as they believed they might look forward to happy and wonderful experiences on the morrow. Toward morning Everychild had a dream.
She wore a little mask over her eyes so that you could not be sure at once whether she was a kind person or not. She sat at a spinning wheel, and the wheel went round and round without making any noise. She was spinning something. She looked very tranquil. Everychild was becoming greatly excited. He touched the cook on the hand. "Didn't it seem to you to get much lighter?" he asked. "Lighter? No.
No dinner table there to cause a lot of work and worry. And please note that he was delighted when he pulled out a plum. Yet the plum is one of the simplest forms of of sustenance. And there was Miss Muffet, daughter of the highly honored Mrs. Alonso Muffet. During that meal which has become historic, where did she sit? On a tuffet!" Everychild could not help asking, "What is a tuffet?"
"Alas! yes," replied Aladdin sadly; and Everychild was surprised that Aladdin could speak sadly. But Aladdin said no more about the lamp just then. He turned his eyes, which seemed a bit askew, upon Everychild. "You were marching bravely as you came along," he said. "I was watching you. And I thought to myself, 'How can any one walk bravely along a road like this?"
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