now eating a good dinner in his mother's cottage, far up the
mountain."
"Then I will go to sleep," said Irene, and in a few minutes, she was
fast asleep.
CHAPTER XXIII
CURDIE AND HIS MOTHER
CURDIE went up the mountain neither whistling nor singing, for he
was
vexed with Irene for taking him in, as he called it; and he was vexed
with himself for having spoken to her so angrily. His mother gave a cry
of joy when she saw him, and at once set about getting him something
to
eat, asking him questions all the time, which he did not answer so
cheerfully as usual. When his meal was ready, she left him to eat it,
and hurried to the mine to let his father know he was safe. When she
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