"There!--don't you see it shining on before us?" she added.
"I don't see anything," persisted Curdie.
"Then you must believe without seeing," said the princess; "for you
can't deny it has brought me out of the mountain."
"I can't deny we _are_ out of the mountain, and I should be very
ungrateful indeed to deny that _you_ had brought _me_ out of it."
"I couldn't have done it but for the thread," persisted Irene.
"That's the part I don't understand."
"Well, come along, and Lootie will get you something to eat. I am sure
you must want it very much."
"Indeed I do. But my father and mother will be so anxious about me, I
must make haste--first up the mountain to tell my mother, and then
down
into the mine again to acquaint my father."
Madhuri Noah
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