Identifier: crimsonfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The crimson fairy book
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
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Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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you. Have you forgotten the wrongs her mother did tous ? answered Lineik, and that it is owing to her thatwe are banished from home ? But she was not really unforgiving, and very soon sheslid quietly out of her hiding-place, and taking the silkfrom Laufers hands began to weave it. So quick andclever was she that the blue dress was not only wovenbut embroidered, and Lineik was safe back in her treebefore the prmce returned. It is the most beautiful work I have ever seen, saidhe, taking up a bit. And I am sure that the red onewill be still better, because the stuff is richer, and with alow bow he left the room. Laufer had hoped secretly that when the prince hadseen the blue dress finished he would have let her off theother two ; but when she found she was expected to fulfilthe whole task, her heart sank and she began to cryloudly. Again Sigurd heard her, and begged Lineik tocome to her help, and Lineik, feeling sorry for her distress,wove and embroidered the second dress as she had done
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THE THREE ROBES 231 the first, mixing gold thread and precious stones till youcould hardly see the red of the stuff. When it was doneshe glided into her tree just as the prince came in. * You are as quick as you are clever, said he, ad-miringly. This looks as if it had been embroidered bythe fairies ! But as the green robe must outshine theother two I will give you three days in which to finish it.After it is ready we will be married at once. Now, as he spoke, there rose up in Laufers mind allthe unkind things that she and her mother had done toLineik. Could she hope that they would be forgotten,and that Lineik would come to her rescue for the thirdtime? And perhaps Lineik, who had not forgotten thepast either, might have left her alone, to get on as bestshe could, had not Sigurd, her brother, implored her tohelp just once more. So Lineik again slid out of her tree,and, to Laufers great relief, set herself to work. Whenthe shining green silk was ready she caught the sunsrays and the m

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