the back of the chair, her head hanging down, and her hands in her lap,
very miserable as she would say herself, not even knowing what she
would
like, except to go out and get very wet, catch a particularly nice
cold, and have to go to bed and take gruel. The next moment after you
see her sitting there, her nurse goes out of the room.
[Illustration: She ran for some distance, turned several times, and then
began to be afraid.]
Even that is a change, and the princess wakes up a little, and looks
about her. Then she tumbles off her chair, and runs out of the door,
not
the same door the nurse went out of, but one which opened at the foot
of
a curious old stair of worm-eaten oak, which looked as if never any one
had set foot upon it. She had once before been up six steps, and that
was sufficient reason, in such a day, for trying to find out what was at
the top of it.
Up and up she ran--such a long way it seemed to her! until she came to
the top of the third flight. There she found the landing was the end of
a long passage. Into this she ran. It was full of doors on each side.
Madhuri Noah
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