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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 more then, it was night; for the goblins slept during the day, and went about their affairs during the night. In the universal and constant darkness of their dwelling, they had no reason to prefer the one arrangement to the other; but from aversion to the sun-people, they chose to be busy when there was least chance of their being met either by the miners below, when they were burrowing, or Madhuri Noah C:\Users\MNoah\Documents\The Princess and the Goblin1.docx Page 179 of 634