cunning. In the process of time they had got a king, and a government
of
their own, whose chief business, beyond their own simple affairs, was
to
devise trouble for their neighbors. It will now be pretty evident why
the little princess had never seen the sky at night. They were much too
afraid of the goblins to let her out of the house then, even in company
with ever so many attendants; and they had good reason, as we shall
see
by-and-by.
CHAPTER II
THE PRINCESS LOSES HERSELF
I HAVE said the Princess Irene was about eight years old when my
story
begins. And this is how it begins.
Madhuri Noah
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