came back, she found him fast asleep upon her bed; nor did he wake
until
the arrival home of his father in the evening.
"Now, Curdie," his mother said, as they sat at supper, "tell us the
whole story from beginning to end, just as it all happened."
Curdie obeyed, and told everything to the point where they came out
upon
the lawn in the garden of the king's house.
"And what happened after that?" asked his mother. "You haven't told
us
all. You ought to be very happy at having got away from those demons,
and instead of that, I never saw you so gloomy. There must be
something
more. Besides, you do not speak of that lovely child as I should like to
hear you. She saved your life at the risk of her own, and yet somehow
you don't seem to think much of it."
"She talked such nonsense!" answered Curdie, "and told me a pack of
things that weren't a bit true; and I can't get over it."
Madhuri Noah
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