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Updated: May 16, 2025
Only, princess, I must say, she added, her mood changing, 'what you ought to have done was to call for your own Lootie to come and help you, instead of running out of the house, and up the mountain, in that wild, I must say, foolish fashion.
Lootie gave a stifled cry, and ran faster still so fast that Irene's little legs could not keep up with her, and she fell with a crash. It was a hard downhill road, and she had been running very fast so it was no wonder she began to cry. This put the nurse nearly beside herself; but all she could do was to run on, the moment she got the princess on her feet again.
'Now I am going to put you to bed for a good sleep, said her grandmother. 'But what will Lootie be thinking? And what am I to say to her when she asks me where I have been? 'Don't trouble yourself about it. You will find it all come right, said her grandmother, and laid her into the blue bed, under the rosy counterpane. 'There is just one thing more, said Irene.
So up and up she went, stair after stair, until she Came to the many rooms all just as she had seen them before. Through passage after passage she softly sped, comforting herself that if she should lose her way it would not matter much, because when she woke she would find herself in her own bed with Lootie not far off.
'I don't want to run, said Irene. 'You don't think of me, said the nurse. 'Yes, I do, Lootie. The boy says they won't touch us if we don't run. 'Yes, but if they know at the house that I've kept you out so late I shall be turned away, and that would break my heart. 'Turned away, Lootie! Who would turn you away? 'Your papa, child. 'But I'll tell him it was all my fault.
But the queen was more wary as well as more agile than hitherto. The rest meantime, finding their adversary thus matched for the moment, paused in their headlong hurry, and turned to the shivering group of women in the corner. As if determined to emulate his father and have a sun-woman of some sort to share his future throne, Harelip rushed at them, caught up Lootie, and sped with her to the hole.
He dropped his burden and rolled shrieking into the earth. Curdie made one stab at him as he disappeared, caught hold of the senseless Lootie, and having dragged her back to the corner, there mounted guard over her, preparing once more to encounter the queen.
'Well, Lootie, said Irene quietly, 'perhaps if you had a big cat, all legs, running at you, you might not exactly know what was the wisest thing to do at the moment. 'I wouldn't run up the mountain, anyhow, returned Lootie. 'Not if you had time to think about it. But when those creatures came at you that night on the mountain, you were so frightened yourself that you lost your way home.
At length the longed-for Friday arrived, and lest Lootie should be moved to watch her, Irene endeavoured to keep herself as quiet as possible. In the afternoon she asked for her doll's house, and went on arranging and rearranging the various rooms and their inhabitants for a whole hour. Then she gave a sigh and threw herself back in her chair.
'I wonder, Lootie' that was her pet name for her nurse 'what pigeons' eggs taste like? she said, as she was eating her egg not quite a common one, for they always picked out the pinky ones for her. 'We'll get you a pigeon's egg, and you shall judge for yourself, said the nurse.
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