The Light Princess And Other Stories Classic Fairytales

Includes The Giant's Heart & the Shadows, By George MacDonald

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THE SHADOWS.
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far happier with the rope round his neck, than he was with the purse in his pocket. I saved him from killing himself too."
" How did you make him confess ? ' " Only by wallowing on the wall a little." " How could that make him tell? H "He knows."
The Shadow was silent; and the king turned to another, who was preparing to speak. " I made a fashionable mother repent." "How?"broke from several voices, in whose sound was mingled a touch of incredulity.
" Only by making a little coffin on the wall," was the reply*
" Did the fashionable mother confess too ? " "She had nothing more to confess than every­body knew."
" What did everybody know then ?"
"That she might have been kissing a living
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