The Light Princess
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald (1824 – 1905) was a Scottish-born novelist and poet. He grew up in a religious home influenced by various sects of Christianity. He attended University of Aberdeen, where he graduated with a degree in chemistry and physics. After experiencing a crisis of faith, he began theological training and became minister of Trinity Congregational Church. Later, he gained success as a writer penning fantasy tales such as Lilith, The Light Princess and At the Back of the North Wind. MacDonald became a well-known lecturer and mentor to various creatives including Lewis Carroll who famously wrote, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland fame.
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The Light Princess - George MacDonald
THE LIGHT PRINCESS
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George MacDonald
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. What! No Children?
2. Won’t I, Just?
3. She Can’t Be Ours.
4. Where Is She?
5. What Is to Be Done?
6. She Laughs Too Much.
7. Try Metaphysics.
8. Try a Drop of Water.
9. Put Me in Again.
10. Look at the Moon.
11. Hiss!
12. Where Is the Prince?
13. Here I Am.
14. This Is Very Kind of You.
15. Look at the Rain!
The Light Princess
By
George MacDonald
The Light Princess
Published by Phantasmo Press
New York City, NY
First published 1864
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1. WHAT! NO CHILDREN?
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ONCE UPON A TIME, SO long ago that I have quite forgotten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children.
And the king said to himself, All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used.
So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was. Then the king grew very cross indeed. But the queen pretended to take it all as a joke, and a very good one too.
Why don’t you have any daughters, at least?
said he. I don’t say sons; that might be too much to expect.
I am sure, dear king, I am very sorry,
said the queen.
So you ought to be,
retorted the king; you are not going to make a virtue of that, surely.
But he was not an ill-tempered king, and in any matter of less moment would have let the queen have her own way with all his heart. This, however, was an affair of state.
The queen smiled.
You must have patience with a lady, you know, dear king,
said she.
She was, indeed, a very nice queen, and heartily sorry that she could not oblige the king immediately.
2. WON’T I, JUST?
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THE KING TRIED TO HAVE patience, but he succeeded very badly. It was more than he deserved, therefore, when, at last, the queen gave him a daughter—as lovely a little princess as ever cried.
The day drew near when the infant must be christened. The king wrote all the invitations with his own hand. Of course somebody was forgotten. Now it does not generally matter if somebody is forgotten, only you must mind who. Unfortunately, the king forgot without intending to forget; and so the chance fell upon the Princess Makemnoit, which was awkward. For the princess was the king’s own sister; and he ought not to have forgotten her. But she had made herself so disagreeable to the old king, their father, that he had forgotten her in making his will; and so it was no wonder that her brother forgot her in writing his invitations. But poor relations don’t do anything to keep you in mind of them. Why don’t they? The king could not see into the garret she lived in, could he?