By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XII | A Short Chapter About Curdie | Curdie spent many nights in the mine. His father and he had taken Mrs. Peterson into the secret, for they knew mother could hold her tongue, which was more than…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XI | The Old Lady’s Bedroom | Nothing more happened worth telling for some time. The autumn came and went by. There were no more flowers in the garden. The winds blew strong, and howled among the rocks….
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter X | The Princess’s King-Papa | The weather continued fine for weeks, and the little princess went out every day. So long a period of fine weather had indeed never been known upon that mountain. The only uncomfortable…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter IX | The Hall of The Goblin Palace | A sound of many soft feet followed, but soon ceased. Then Curdie flew at the hole like a tiger, and tore and pulled. The sides gave way, and it…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter VIII | The Goblins | For some time Curdie worked away briskly, throwing all the ore he had disengaged on one side behind him, to be ready for carrying out in the morning. He heard a good deal…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter VII | The Mines | Curdie went home whistling. He resolved to say nothing about the princess for fear of getting the nurse into trouble, for while he enjoyed teasing her because of her absurdity, he was careful…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter VI | The Little Miner | The next day the great cloud still hung over the mountain, and the rain poured like water from a full sponge. The princess was very fond of being out of doors, and…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter V | The Princess Lets Well Alone | When she woke the next morning, the first thing she heard was the rain still falling. Indeed, this day was so like the last that it would have been difficult…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter IV | What The Nurse Though of It | ‘Why, where can you have been, princess?’ asked the nurse, taking her in her arms. ‘It’s very unkind of you to hide away so long. I began to be…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter III | The Princess and We Shall See | When she came to the top, she found herself in a little square place, with three doors, two opposite each other, and one opposite the top of the stair….