THE PRINCESS'S KING-PAPA
THE weather continued fine for weeks, and the little princess went out
every day. So long a period of fine weather had indeed never been
known
upon that mountain. The only uncomfortable thing was that her nurse
was
so nervous and particular about being in before the sun was down, that
often she would take to her heels when nothing worse than a fleecy
cloud
crossing the sun threw a shadow on the hillside; and many an evening
they were home a full hour before the sunlight had left the
weathercock
on the stables. If it had not been for such behavior, Irene would by
this time have almost forgotten the goblins. She never forgot Curdie,
but him she remembered for his own sake, and indeed would have
remembered him if only because a princess never forgets her debts
until
they are paid.
[Illustration: In an instant she was on the saddle, and clasped in his
great strong arms.]
Madhuri Noah
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