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Naggeneen had frightened them, as he always frightened them when he chose. After that for a time everything went with the fairies as it had gone at first, except that Naggeneen was not among them. Sometimes he was in the hall by himself and sometimes he was out of it by himself, but he never danced with the others, he never talked with them, and he never played for them.
"Then it was not strange," said the King. "Any way, strange or not strange," Naggeneen went on, "it was the truth. Never a butler could he keep in his service. A new butler would come and he'ld think he was a made man, old MacCarthy was that well known and that well liked all over the counthry. He'ld wait once at dinner and then down he'ld go to the cellar for wine.
And now I ask ye, Naggeneen, what are ye goin' to do to get us out of the throuble ye've got us into?" "I'm in no throuble meself," Naggeneen answered, "and I dunno what I have to do wid any throuble that you may be in." "You're in no throuble yourself? Haven't ye been as good as livin' on the Sullivans all this time? And now what are ye goin' to do widout them?"
But you can watch your chance and do it when she's asleep or in some way off her guard." An angry murmur ran around when Naggeneen said this. The King was about to speak, but the Queen spoke first. "Never a one of you shall harm her," she said. "Look what she did for me and the little Prince, at that time when we can do nothing for ourselves.
"I never tried," said the King. "And can I not light up this palace," he went on, "or any other palace, with diamonds? Can I not make a light so that a man who looks behind him when he is going on a journey or at work in the fields will think his house is on fire and run back?" "And when he has run back," said Naggeneen, "will he find that his house is on fire? You know that he will not.
"He said he'ld come here and talk to you himself, and, by the look of him, I think it's a pleasant time he'll be giving you." "Then why is he not here as soon as you?" the King asked. "Oh, nothing would do for him," said Naggeneen, "but that he and his men must come on horseback. They can come no faster that way, but they think it's due to their dignity.
"For the same reason makes the men want to do it, but you couldn't. And those boats that cross the river, full of iron can you make them, and can you cross the running water in them?" The King had no voice to answer. "And the pictures in the boxes," Naggeneen went on; "can you make pictures dance?"
Our lights are lies themselves and they can no more than lead a silly mortal astray for a time; their lights tell the truth. What else can you do?" The King had lost the most of his boldness. "They say," he said, "that men can burst open the rock. Can I not do that as well?" "You can open this rock for us to pass through," said Naggeneen; "and what then?
There was nothing strange in the last that Naggeneen had told nothing more strange, I mean, than that a peasant boy should marry the daughter of the King of France but his voice, before he had ended, was so low and so full of grief that all the other fairies kept very still to listen, and when he had told his story none of them spoke for a little while.
And I'll be like the rest of you till the Last Day, and then it's not even a little smoke that there'll be left of us. Dance and play and do what you like, but leave me be." Naggeneen turned away from the King, pushed his way through the crowd, and threw himself down in a corner of the hall, with his face against the wall. The rest did not dance any more that night.
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