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Updated: June 1, 2025
'And there is his mother, king-papa! she said. 'See there. She is such a nice mother, and has been so kind to me! They all parted asunder as the king made a sign to her to come forward. She obeyed, and he gave her his hand, but could not speak. 'And now, king-papa, the princess went on, 'I must tell you another thing.
He told him the whole story; and, just as he had expected, his father thought it best to work that lode no farther, but at the same time to pretend occasionally to be at work there still in order that the goblins might have no suspicions. Both father and son then went to bed and slept soundly until the morning. The Princess's King-Papa
The stream was the same which ran out by the seat on which Irene and her king-papa had sat as I have told, and the goblin creatures found it jolly fun to get out for a romp on a smooth lawn such as they had never seen in all their poor miserable lives.
But at length they spied a glimmer of light, and in a minute more they were almost blinded by the full sunlight, into which they emerged. It was some little time before the princess could see well enough to discover that they stood in her own garden, close by the seat on which she and her king-papa had sat that afternoon. They had come out by the channel of the little stream.
'You deserve to be well punished for your wicked behaviour. 'Please, Mrs Housekeeper, said the princess, 'will you take me to your room, and keep me till my king-papa comes? I will ask him to come as soon as he can. Every one stared at these words. Up to this moment they had all regarded her as little more than a baby.
'Oh, Curdie! cried Irene, clapping her hands right joyfully,'my king-papa is come. The moment Curdie heard that, he caught her up in his arms, and set off at full speed, crying: 'Come on, mother dear! The king may break his heart before he knows that she is safe. Irene clung round his neck and he ran with her like a deer.
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