![]() ![]() The ceiling of her nursery was blue, with stars in it, as like the sky as they could make it. Those eyes you would have thought must have known they came from there, so often were they turned up in that direction. Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue. The princess was a sweet little creature, and at the time my story begins was about eight years old, I think, but she got older very fast. The princess, whose name was Irene, was born there, but she was sent soon after her birth, because her mother was not very strong, to be brought up by country people in a large house, half castle, half farmhouse, on the side of another mountain, about half-way between its base and its peak. His palace was built upon one of the mountains, and was very grand and beautiful. There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. CHAPTER 27 – The Goblins in the King’s HouseĬHAPTER 1 – Why the Princess Has a Story About Her.CHAPTER 24 – Irene Behaves Like a Princess.CHAPTER 12 – A Short Chapter About Curdie.CHAPTER 9 – The Hall of the Goblin Palace. ![]() CHAPTER 5 – The Princess Lets Well Alone.CHAPTER 4 – What the Nurse Thought of It.CHAPTER 2 – The Princess and the Goblin.CHAPTER 1 – Why the Princess Has a Story About Her. ![]()
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