up from her horrid head. Her heart was quaking, however, and she
kept
moving about her skin-shod foot with nervous apprehension. When
Curdie
was within a few paces, she rushed at him, made one tremendous
stamp at
his opposing foot, which happily he withdrew in time, and caught him
round the waist, to dash him on the marble floor. But just as she
caught
him, he came down with all the weight of his iron-shod shoe upon her
skin-shod foot, and with a hideous howl she dropped him, squatted on
the
floor and took her foot in both her hands. Meanwhile the rest rushed
on
the king and the bodyguard sent them flying, and lifted the prostrate
captain, who was all but pressed to death. It was some moments before
he
recovered breath and consciousness.
"Where's the princess?" cried Curdie again and again.
No one knew, and off they all rushed in search of her.
Madhuri Noah
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