thundering roar, and the ground trembled beneath their feet, and
before
the last of them had crossed the court, out after them from the great
hall-door came a huge rush of turbid water, and almost swept them
away.
But they got safe out of the gate and up the mountain, while the
torrent
went roaring down the road into the valley beneath.
Curdie had left the king and the princess to look after his mother,
whom
he and his father, one on each side, caught up when the stream
overtook
them and carried safe and dry.
When the king had got out of the way of the water, a little up the
mountain, he stood with the princess in his arms, looking back with
amazement on the issuing torrent, which glimmered fierce and foamy
through the night. There Curdie rejoined them.
"Now, Curdie," said the king, "what does it mean! Is this what you
expected?"
"It is, your Majesty," said Curdie; and proceeded to tell him about the
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