CURDIE COMES TO GRIEF
EVERYTHING was for some time quiet above ground. The king was
still away
in a distant part of his dominions. The men-at-arms kept watching
about
the house. They had been considerably astonished by finding at the
foot
of the rock in the garden, the hideous body of the goblin-creature
killed by Curdie; but they came to the conclusion that it had been slain
in the mines, and had crept out there to die; and except an occasional
glimpse of a live one they saw nothing to cause alarm. Curdie kept
watching in the mountain, and the goblins kept burrowing deeper into
the
earth. As long as they went deeper, there was, Curdie judged, no
immediate danger.
To Irene, the summer was as full of pleasure as ever, and for a long
time, although she often thought of her grandmother during the day,
and
often dreamed about her at night, she did not see her. The kids and the
flowers were as much her delight as ever, and she made as much
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