Identifier: princesscurdiemacd (find matches)
Title: The princess and Curdie
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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heir surprise, the light,instead of being in front of them, was shiningat the same distance to the right, where they didnot know there was any passage at all. Thenthey discovered, by the light of the lanterns theycarried, that there the water had broken through,and made an adit to a part of the mountain ofwhich Peter knew nothing. But they werehardly well into it, still following the light, be-fore Curdie thought he recognised some of thepassages he had so often gone through when hewas watching the goblins. After they had ad-vanced a long way, with many turnings, now tothe right, now to the left, all at once their eyesseemed to come suddenly to themselves, and theybecame aware that the light which they had takento be a great way from them was in realityalmost within reach of their hands. The sameinstant it began to grow larger and thinner, thepoint of light grew dim as it spread, the green-ness melted away, and in a moment or two, in-stead of the star, a dark, dark and yet luminous 66
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CURDIE AND HIS FATHER BEHELD A I.ADT, BEATTTIFUL EXCEEDINGLY THE EMERALD face was looking at them with living eyes. AndCurdie felt a great awe swell up in his heart, forhe thought he had seen those eyes before. I see you know me, Curdie, said a voice. If your eyes are you, maam, then I knowyou, said Curdie. But I never saw yourface before. Yes, you have seen it, Curdie, said the voice. And with that the darkness of its complexionmelted away, and down from the face dawnedout the form that belonged to it, until at lastCurdie and his father beheld a lady, beautifulexceedingly, dressed in something pale green,like velvet, over which her hair fell in cataractsof a rich golden colour. It looked as if it werepouring down from her head, and, like the waterof the Dustbrook, vanishing in a golden vapourere it reached the floor. It came flowing fromunder the edge of a coronet of gold, set withalternated pearls and emeralds. In front of thecrown was a great emerald, which looked some-how as if ou

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