Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers

ncess. In she came, sliding and flitting and gliding from one piece of furniture to another, and put herself at last in an arm chair, in a

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the queen; but the pr

urious feeling sometimes, as if I were the onl

er the chair, and went rolling about the floor in an ecstasy of enjoyment. The king picked her up easier than one does a down qui

the king, who had learned by this time tha

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a very long string indeed, and be flown like a kite. Oh, such fun! I would r

ot the king started up and caught her just in time. Seeing that nothing but talk could b

turning to her majesty

answered she. 'Let us consult

ied the king

ested them to consult together as to what might be the cause and probable cure of her infirmity. The king laid stress upon the word, but failed to discover his own pun. The queen laughed; but Hum-Drum and Kopy-Keck heard with humility and retired in silence. Their consultation consisted chiefly in propounding and supporting, for the thousandth time,

e former was slow and sententious; the latter was quick and fligh

I have done. At that decisive moment, when souls seek their appointed habitations, two eager souls met, rebounded, lost their way, and arrived each at the wrong place. The soul of the princess was one of those, and she went far astray. She does not belong by rights to t

; its social history; its moral history; its political history; its scientific history; its literary history; its musical history; its artistical history; above all, its metaphysical history. She must begin with the C

ur inquiry, the motion of her heart has been reversed. That remarkable combination of the suction and the force pump works the wrong way,-I mean in the case of the unfortunate princess: it draws in where it should force out, and forces out where it should draw in. The offices of the auricles and the ventricles are subverted. The blood

a ligature to the left ankle, drawing it as tight as the bone will bear. Apply, at the same moment, another of equal tension around the right wrist. By means of plates con

y arrive in the form o

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y unscrupulous philosophers. Indeed, the most complete knowledge of the laws of nature would have been unserviceable in her cas