"Shall I see if we can manage that?" said Curdie.
"Do," said the king.
Curdie gathered the men-at-arms, and took them over the garden wall,
and
so to the stables. They found their horses in terror; the water was
rising fast around them, and it was quite time they were got out. But
there was no way to get them out, except by riding them through the
stream, which was now pouring from the lower windows as well as the
door. As one horse was quite enough for any man to manage through
such a
torrent, Curdie got on the king's white charger, and leading the way,
brought them all in safety to the rising ground.
"Look, look, Curdie!" cried Irene, the moment that, having
dismounted,
he led the horse up to the king.
Curdie did look, and saw, high in the air, somewhere about the top of
the king's house, a great globe of light, shining like the purest
silver.
Madhuri Noah
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