stormy to go out, and she had got tired of her toys, Lootie would take
her about the house, sometimes to the housekeeper's room, where the
housekeeper, who was a good, kind old woman, made much of her-sometimes
to the servants' hall or the kitchen, where she was not princess merely,
but absolute queen, and ran a great risk of being spoiled. Sometimes
she
would run of herself to the room where the men-at-arms whom the
king had
left, sat, and they showed her their arms and accoutrements, and did
what they could to amuse her. Still at times she found it very dreary,
and often and often wished that her huge great grandmother had not
been
a dream.
One morning the nurse left her with the housekeeper for a while. To
amuse her, she turned out the contents of an old cabinet upon the
table.
The little princess found her treasures, queer ancient ornaments and
many things the uses of which she could not imagine, far more
interesting than her own toys, and sat playing with them for two hours
or more. But at length, in handling a curious old-fashioned brooch, she
ran the pin of it into her thumb, and gave a little scream with the
sharpness of the pain, but would have thought little more of it, had not
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