to her bosom.
"Why weren't you in your workroom, when we came up,
grandmother?" asked
Irene, after a few moments' silence.
"If I had been there, Curdie would have seen me well enough. But why
should I be there rather than in this beautiful room?"
"I thought you would be spinning."
"I've nobody to spin for just at present. I never spin without knowing
for whom I am spinning."
"That reminds me--there is one thing that puzzles me," said the
princess: "how are you to get the thread out of the mountain again?
Surely you won't have to make another for me! That would be such a
trouble!"
The lady set her down, and rose, and went to the fire. Putting in her
hand, she drew it out again, and held up the shining ball between her
finger and thumb.
Madhuri Noah
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