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The
Princess and the Goblin, George
MacDonald
There was
once a little princess whose
father was king over a great
country full of mountains and
valleys. His palace was built
upon one of the mountains, and
was very grand and beautiful.
The princess, whose name was
Irene, was born there, but she
was sent soon after her birth,
because her mother was not very
strong, to be brought up by country
people in a large house, half
castle, half farmhouse, on the
side of another mountain, about
half way between its base and
its peak.
The princess was
a sweet little creature, and at the
time my story begins was about eight
years old, I think, but she got older
very fast. Her face was fair and
pretty, with eyes like two bits of
night sky, each with a star dissolved
in the blue. Those eyes you would
have thought must have known they
came from there, so often were they
turned up in that direction. The
ceiling of her nursery was blue,
with stars in it, as like the sky
as they could make it.
But I doubt if ever she saw the real
sky with the stars in it, for a reason
which I had better mention at once. Read
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