skillful workmen about her, she had not yet replaced the shoe carried
off by Curdie. As the king however had more than one ground of
objection
to her stone shoes, he no doubt took advantage of the discovery of her
toes, and threatened to expose her deformity if she had another made.
I
presume he insisted on her being content with skin-shoes, and allowed
her to wear the remaining granite one on the present occasion only
because she was going out to war.
They soon arrived in the king's wine-cellar, and regardless of its huge
vessels, of which they did not know the use, began as quietly as they
could to force the door that led upward.
CHAPTER XXVII
THE GOBLINS IN THE KING'S HOUSE
Madhuri Noah
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