By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXVI | The Goblins Miners | That same night several of the servants were having a chat together before going to bed. ‘What can that noise be?’ said one of the housemaids, who had been listening for a…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXV | Curdie Comes To Grief | Everything was for some time quiet above ground. The king was still away in a distant part of his dominions. The men-at-arms kept watching about the house. They had been considerably…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXIV | Irene Behaves Like a Princess | When the princess awoke from the sweetest of sleeps, she found her nurse bending above her, the housekeeper looking over the nurse’s shoulder, and the laundry-maid looking over the housekeeper’s….
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXIII | Curdie and His Mother | Curdie went up the mountain neither whistling nor singing, for he was vexed with Irene for taking him in, as he called it; and he was vexed with himself for having…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXII | The Old Lady and Curdie | Up the stair then they went, and the next and the next, and through the long rows of empty rooms, and up the little tower stairs, Irene growing happier and…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXI | The Escape | As the princess lay and sobbed, she kept feeling the thread mechanically, following it with her finger many times up the stones in which it disappeared. By and by she began, still mechanically,…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XX | Irene’s Clue | That same morning, early, the princess woke in a terrible fright. There was a hideous noise in her room—of creatures snarling and hissing and racketing about as if they were fighting. The moment…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XIX | Goblin Counsels | He must have slept a long time, for when he awoke, he felt wonderfully restored—indeed he felt almost well, and he was also very hungry. There were voices in the outer cave. Once…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XVIII | Curdie’s Clue | Curdie’s was as watchful as ever, but was almost getting tired of his ill-success. Every other night or so he followed the goblins about, as they went on digging and boring, and getting…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XVII | Spring Time | The spring, so dear to all creatures, young and old, came at last, and before the first few days of it had gone, the king rode through its budding valleys to see his…