king who had caused their expulsion, that they sought every
opportunity
of tormenting them in ways that were as odd as their inventors; and
although dwarfed and mis-shapen, they had strength equal to their
cunning. In the process of time they had got a king, and a government
of
their own, whose chief business, beyond their own simple affairs, was
to
devise trouble for their neighbors. It will now be pretty evident why
the little princess had never seen the sky at night. They were much too
afraid of the goblins to let her out of the house then, even in company
with ever so many attendants; and they had good reason, as we shall
see
by-and-by.
CHAPTER II
THE PRINCESS LOSES HERSELF
Madhuri Noah
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