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cold, and have to go to bed and take gruel. The next moment after you see her sitting there, her nurse goes out of the room. [Illustration: She ran for some distance, turned several times, and then began to be afraid.] Even that is a change, and the princess wakes up a little, and looks about her. Then she tumbles off her chair, and runs out of the door, not the same door the nurse went out of, but one which opened at the foot of a curious old stair of worm-eaten oak, which looked as if never any one had set foot upon it. She had once before been up six steps, and that was sufficient reason, in such a day, for trying to find out what was at the top of it. Up and up she ran--such a long way it seemed to her! until she came to the top of the third flight. There she found the landing was the end of a long passage. Into this she ran. It was full of doors on each side. There were so many that she did not care to open any, but ran on to the end, where she turned into another passage, also full of doors. When she Madhuri Noah C:\Users\MNoah\Documents\The Princess and the Goblin1.docx Page 13 of 634