friendship with the miners' children she met on the mountain as
Lootie
would permit; but Lootie had very foolish notions concerning the
dignity
of a princess, not understanding that the truest princess is just the
one who loves all her brothers and sisters best, and who is most able to
do them good by being humble toward them. At the same time she was
considerably altered for the better in her behavior to the princess.
She could not help seeing that she was no longer a mere child, but
wiser
than her age would account for. She kept foolishly whispering to the
servants, however--sometimes that the princess was not right in her
mind, sometimes that she was too good to live, and other nonsense of
the
same sort.
All this time, Curdie had to be sorry, without a chance of confessing,
that he had behaved so unkindly to the princess. This perhaps made
him
the more diligent in his endeavors to serve her. His mother and he
often
talked on the subject, and she comforted him, and told him she was
sure
he would some day have the opportunity he so much desired.
Madhuri Noah
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