{"product_id":"2940012828088","title":"THE PRINCESS AND CURDIE","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       I. THE MOUNTAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      II. THE WHITE PIGEON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. THE MISTRESS OF THE SILVER MOON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IV. CURDIE'S FATHER AND MOTHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       V. THE MINERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VI. THE EMERALD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII. WHAT IS IN A NAME?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII. CURDIE'S MISSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IX. HANDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       X. THE HEATH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XI. LINA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XII. MORE CREATURES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII. THE BAKER'S WIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIV. THE DOGS OF GWYNTYSTORM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XV. DERBA AND BARBARA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVI. THE MATTOCK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVII. THE WINE CELLAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XVIII. THE KING'S KITCHEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIX. THE KING'S CHAMBER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XX. COUNTER-PLOTTING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXI. THE LOAF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXII. THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXIII. DR. KELMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIV. THE PROPHECY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXV. THE AVENGERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXVI. THE VENGEANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXVII. MORE VENGEANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXVIII. THE PREACHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIX. BARBARA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXX. PETER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXXI. THE SACRIFICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXXII. THE KING'S ARMY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIII. THE BATTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXXIV. JUDGMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXXV. THE END\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PRINCESS AND CURDIE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MOUNTAIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and\u003cbr\u003emother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his father\u003cbr\u003einside the mountain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing\u003cbr\u003eso much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet\u003cbr\u003emore afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them,--and what\u003cbr\u003epeople hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them\u003cbr\u003ewith admiration, perhaps we do not always feel quite awe enough of them.\u003cbr\u003eTo me they are beautiful terrors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI will try to tell you what they are. They are portions of the heart of\u003cbr\u003ethe earth that have escaped from the dungeon down below, and rushed up\u003cbr\u003eand out. For the heart of the earth is a great wallowing mass, not of\u003cbr\u003eblood, as in the hearts of men and animals, but of glowing hot melted\u003cbr\u003emetals and stones. And as our hearts keep us alive, so that great lump\u003cbr\u003eof heat keeps the earth alive: it is a huge power of buried\u003cbr\u003esunlight--that is what it is. Now think: out of that caldron, where all\u003cbr\u003ethe bubbles would be as big as the Alps if it could get room for its\u003cbr\u003eboiling, certain bubbles have bubbled out and escaped--up and away, and\u003cbr\u003ethere they stand in the cool, cold sky--mountains. Think of the change,\u003cbr\u003eand you will no more wonder that there should be something awful about\u003cbr\u003ethe very look of a mountain: from the darkness--for where the light has\u003cbr\u003enothing to shine upon, it is much the same as darkness--from the heat,\u003cbr\u003efrom the endless tumult of boiling unrest--up, with a sudden heavenward\u003cbr\u003eshoot, into the wind, and the cold, and the starshine, and a cloak of\u003cbr\u003esnow that lies like ermine above the blue-green mail of the glaciers;\u003cbr\u003eand the great sun, their grandfather, up there in the sky; and their\u003cbr\u003elittle old cold aunt, the moon, that comes wandering about the house at\u003cbr\u003enight; and everlasting stillness, except for the wind that turns the\u003cbr\u003erocks and caverns into a roaring organ for the young archangels that\u003cbr\u003eare studying how to let out the pent-up praises of their hearts, and the\u003cbr\u003emolten music of the streams, rushing ever from the bosoms of the\u003cbr\u003eglaciers fresh-born. Think too of the change in their own substance--no\u003cbr\u003elonger molten and soft, heaving and glowing, but hard and shining and\u003cbr\u003ecold. Think of the creatures scampering over and burrowing in it, and\u003cbr\u003ethe birds building their nests upon it, and the trees growing out of its\u003cbr\u003esides, like hair to clothe it, and the lovely grass in the valleys, and\u003cbr\u003ethe gracious flowers even at the very edge of its armour of ice, like\u003cbr\u003ethe rich embroidery of the garment below, and the rivers galloping down\u003cbr\u003ethe valleys in a tumult of white and green! And along with all these,\u003cbr\u003ethink of the terrible precipices down which the traveller may fall and\u003cbr\u003ebe lost, and the frightful gulfs of blue air cracked in the glaciers,\u003cbr\u003eand the dark profound lakes, covered like little arctic oceans with\u003cbr\u003efloating lumps of ice. All this outside the mountain! 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