horrible grimaces all through the rhyme.]
The king was pleased to find him behave more politely than he had
expected from what his people had told him concerning the miners, for
he
attributed it to the power of his own presence; but he did not therefore
feel friendly to the intruder.
"You will oblige me by walking out of my dominions at once," he said,
well knowing what a mockery lay in the words.
"With pleasure, if your majesty will give me a guide," said Curdie.
"I will give you a thousand," said the king, with a scoffing air of
magnificent liberality.
"One will be quite sufficient," said Curdie.
But the king uttered a strange shout, half halloo, half roar, and in
rushed goblins till the cave was swarming. He said something to the
first of them which Curdie could not hear, and it was passed from one
to
another till in a moment the farthest in the crowd had evidently heard
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