a messenger was sent for Peter and all the miners, and there was a
great
and grand feast, which continued long after the princess was put to
bed.
CHAPTER XXXI
THE SUBTERRANEAN WATERS
THE king's harper, who always formed a part of his escort, was
chanting
a ballad which he made as he went on playing on his instrument-about
the princess and the goblins, and the prowess of Curdie, when all at
once he ceased, with his eyes on one of the doors of the hall.
Thereupon
the eyes of the king and his guests turned thitherward also. The next
moment, through the open doorway came the princess Irene. She went
straight up to her father, with her right hand stretched out a little
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