English: Identifier: princesscurdiemacd

Title: The princess and Curdie Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 Subjects: 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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Text Appearing Before Image: n the top ofthe tower, where she went through all the—what should he call it?—the behaviour of pre-senting him to her grandmother, talking nowto her and now to him, while all the time hesaw nothing but a bare garret, a heap of mustystraw, a sunbeam, and a withered apple. Lady,he would have declared before the king himself,young or old, there was none, except the prin-cess herself, who was certainly vexed that hecould not see what she at least believed she saw.And for his mother, she had once seen, longbefore Curdie was born, a certain mysteriouslight of the same description with one Irenespoke of, calling it her grandmothers moon;and Curdie himself had seen this same light,shining from above the castle, just as the kingand princess were taking their leave. Sincethat time neither had seen or heard anythingthat could be supposed connected with her.Strangely enough, however, nobody had seenher go away. If she was such an old lady, she could hardly be supposed to have set out alone 22

Text Appearing After Image: SHE HAD ONCE SEEN A CERTAIN MYSTERIOUS LIGHT OF THE SAMEDESCRIPTION THE WHITE PIGEON and on foot when all the house was asleep. Still,away she must have gone, for of course, if shewas so powerful, she would always be about theprincess to take care of her. But as Cur die grew older, he doubted moreand more whether Irene had not been talkingof some dream she had taken for reality: hehad heard it said that children could not alwaysdistinguish betwixt dreams and actual events.At the same time there was his mothers testi-mony: what was he to do with that? Hismother, through whom he had learned every-thing, could hardly be imagined by her owndutiful son to have mistaken a dream for afact of the waking world. So he rather shrunkfrom thinking about it, and the less he thoughtabout it, the less he was inclined to believe itwhen he did think about it, and therefore, ofcourse, the less inclined to talk about it to hisfather and mother; for although his father wasone of those men who for one word

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