1 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: Welcome, sleep Tight Stories, Chapter four. 2 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: When we had lived for a fortnight in Carlisle, we 3 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: belonged there, and the freedom of its small fry was 4 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: conferred on us. With Peter and Dan, and Felicity and Sicily, 5 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: and the story girl with pale, gray eyed little Sarah Ray, 6 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: we were born companions. We went to school, of course, 7 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 2: and certain home chores were assigned to each of us 8 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: for the faithful performance of which we were held responsible. 9 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: But we had long hours for play. Even Peter had 10 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 2: plenty of spare time when the planting was over. We 11 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 2: got along very well with each other in the main, 12 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: in spite of some minor differences of opinion. As for 13 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 2: the grown up denizens of our small world, they suited us. Also. 14 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 2: We adored Aunt Olivia. She was pretty and merry and kind, 15 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: and above all, she had mastered to perfection the rare 16 00:01:52,400 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 2: art of letting children alone. If we kept ourselves tallerbly clean, 17 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: and refrained from quarreling or talking slang, Aunt Olivia did 18 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: not worry us. Aunt Janet, on the contrary, gave us 19 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 2: so much good advice and was constantly telling us to 20 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 2: do this or not do the other thing that we 21 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 2: could not remember half her instructions and did not try. 22 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: Uncle Roger was, as we had been informed, quite jolly 23 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 2: and fond of teasing. We liked him, but we had 24 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 2: an uncomfortable feeling that the meaning of his remarks was 25 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 2: not always that which met the ear. Sometimes we believed 26 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: Uncle Roger was making fun of us, and the deadly 27 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 2: seriousness of youth in us resented that to Uncle Alec 28 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: we gave our warmest love. We felt that we always 29 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: had a friend at court in Uncle Alec, no matter 30 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: what we did or left undone, and we never had 31 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 2: to turn his speeches inside out to discover their meaning. 32 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: The social life of juvenile Carlisle centered in the day 33 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: and Sunday schools. We were especially interested in our Sunday school, 34 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 2: for we were fortunate enough to be assigned to a 35 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: teacher who made our lessons so interesting that we no 36 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: longer regarded Sunday school attendance as a disagreeable weekly duty, 37 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: but instead looked forward to it with pleasure and tried 38 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: to carry out our teachers gentle precepts. At least on 39 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: Mondays and Tuesdays. I am afraid the remembrance grew a 40 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 2: little dim the rest of the week. She was also 41 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: deeply interested in missions, and one talk on this subject 42 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: inspired the story girl to do a little home missionary 43 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: work on her own account. The only thing she could 44 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 2: think of along this line was to persuade Peter to 45 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 2: go to church. Felicity did not approve of the design, 46 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: and said so plainly, he won't know how to behave, 47 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 2: for he's never been inside a church door in his life. 48 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 2: She warned the story girl, He'll likely do something awful, 49 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: and then you'll feel ashamed and wish you had never 50 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: asked him to go, and we'll all be disgraced. It's 51 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen 52 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: and say and missionaries to them. They're far away and 53 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 2: we don't have to associate with them. But I don't 54 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: want to have to sit in a pew with a 55 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: hired boy. But the story girl undauntedly continued to coax 56 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: the reluctant Peter. It was not an easy matter. Peter 57 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 2: did not come of a church going stock, and besides, 58 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 2: he alleged he had not yet made up his mind 59 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: whether to be a Presbyterian or a Methodist. It isn't 60 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: a bit of difference which you are pleaded, the story girl. 61 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: They both go to heaven, but one way must be 62 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 2: easier or better than the other, or else they'd all 63 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 2: be one kind, argued Peter. I want to find the 64 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: easiest way, and I've got a hankering after the Methodists. 65 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: My aunt Jane was a Methodist, isn't she one, still, 66 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 2: asked Felicity pertly. Well, I don't know exactly she's dead, 67 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 2: said Peter. Do people go on being just the same 68 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 2: after they're dead? No, of course not. They're angels then, 69 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: not Methodists or anything, but just angels, that is, if 70 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 2: they go to heaven s'pose, and they won't to the 71 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 2: other place. But Felicity's theology broke down at this point, 72 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 2: She turned her back on Peter and walked disdainfully away. 73 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: The story Girl returned to the main point with a 74 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 2: new argument. We have such a lovely minister, Peter. He 75 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 2: looks just like the picture of Saint John my father 76 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 2: sent me, only he is old and his hair is white. 77 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: I know you'd like him. And even if you are 78 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: going to be a Methodist, it won't hurt you to 79 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: go to the Presbyterian church. The nearest Methodist church is 80 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 2: six miles away Arkdale, and you can't attend there. Just 81 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: now go to the Presbyterian church until you're old enough 82 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,679 Speaker 2: to have a horse. But s'pose I got too fond 83 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 2: of being Presbyterian and couldn't change if I wanted to, 84 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 2: objected Peter altogether. The story girl had a hard time 85 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 2: of it, but she persevered, and one day she came 86 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 2: to us with the announcement that Peter had yielded. He's 87 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 2: going to church with us tomorrow, she said triumphantly. We 88 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: were out in Uncle Roger's hill pasture, sitting on some 89 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 2: smooth round stones under a clump of birches. Behind us 90 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: was an old gray fence with violets and dandelions thick 91 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 2: in its corners. Below us was the Carlisle Valley, with 92 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 2: its orchard embowered homesteads and fertile meadows. Its upper end 93 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 2: was dim with a delicate spring mist. Winds blew up 94 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 2: the field like wave upon wave of sweet savor, spice 95 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 2: of bracken and balsam. We were eating little jam turnovers, 96 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: which Felicity had made for us. Felicity's turnovers were perfection. 97 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: I looked at her and wondered why it was not 98 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 2: enough that she should be so pretty and capable of 99 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 2: making such turnovers if she were only more interesting. Felicity 100 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,599 Speaker 2: had not a particle of the nameless charm and allurement 101 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 2: which hung about every motion of the story Girl, and 102 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 2: made itself manifest in her lightest word and most careless glance. Ah, well, 103 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 2: one cannot have every good gift. The story girl had 104 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 2: no dimples at her slim brown wrists. We all enjoyed 105 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: our turnovers except Sarah Ray. She ate hers, but she 106 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 2: knew she should not have done so. Her mother did 107 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:23,359 Speaker 2: not approve of snacks between meals or of jam turnovers 108 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: at any time. Once, when Sarah was in a brown study, 109 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: I asked her what she was thinking of. I'm trying 110 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 2: to think of something Mom hasn't forbidden, she answered, with 111 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: a sigh. We were all glad to hear that Peter 112 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 2: was going to church, except Felicity. She was full of 113 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 2: gloomy foreboardings and warnings. I'm surprised at you, Felicity King, 114 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 2: said Cecily severely. You ought to be glad that poor 115 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 2: boy is going to get star in the right way. 116 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 2: There's a great big patch on his best pair of trousers, 117 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 2: protested Felicity, Well, that's better than a hole, said the 118 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: story girl, addressing herself daintily to his turnover. God won't 119 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: notice the patch. No, but the Carlyle people will, retorted Felicity, 120 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: in a tone which implied that what the Carlyle people 121 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 2: thought was far more important. And I don't believe that 122 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: Peter has got a decent stocking to his name. What 123 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 2: will you feel like if it goes to church with 124 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 2: the skin of his legs showing through the holes, miss 125 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 2: story girl, I'm not a bit afraid, said the story girl. 126 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 2: Peter will know better than that. Well, all I hope 127 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 2: is that he'll wash behind his ears, said Felicity. How 128 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 2: is pat today, eh, asked Cecily, by way of changing 129 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: the conversation. Pat isn't a bit better. He just mopes 130 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 2: about the kitchen, said the story girl, anxiously. I went 131 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 2: out to the barn and I saw a mouse. I 132 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: had a stick in my hand and I fetched a 133 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: swipe at it, so I killed it stone dead. Then 134 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 2: I took it into Patty. Will you believe it? He 135 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 2: wouldn't even look at it. I'm so worried. Uncle Roger 136 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: says he needs a dose of medicine. But how is 137 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: he to be made to take it, that's the question. 138 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: I mixed a powder and some milk and tried to 139 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 2: pour it down his throat while Peter held him. Just 140 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 2: look at the scratches I got, and the milk went 141 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: everywhere except down Pat's throat. Wouldn't it be awful if 142 00:11:54,400 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 2: if anything happened to Pat, whispered Cecily. Well, oh, we 143 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 2: could have a jolly funeral, you know, said Dan. We 144 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 2: looked at him in such horror that Dan hastened to apologize. 145 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: I'd be awful sorry myself if Pat died, But if 146 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 2: he did, we'd have to give him the right kind 147 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 2: of funeral, he protested. Why Patty just seems like one 148 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: of the family. The story girl finished her turnover and 149 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: stretched herself out on the grasses, pillowing her chin in 150 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 2: her hands and looking at the sky. She was bare headed, 151 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: as usual, and her scarlet ribbon was bound around on 152 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: the top of her head. She had twined freshly plucked 153 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 2: dandelions around it, and the effect was that of a 154 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 2: crown of brilliant golden stars on her sleek brown curls. 155 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 2: Look at that long, thin, lacy cloud up there, she said, 156 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: What does it make you think of? Girls a wedding veil, 157 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 2: said Cecily, that is just what it is, the wedding 158 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: veil of the proud princess. I know a story about it. 159 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 2: I read it in a book Once upon a time. 160 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: The story girl's eyes grew dreamy, and her accents floated 161 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: away on the summer air like wind blown rose petals. 162 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: There was a princess who was the most beautiful princess 163 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 2: in the world, and kings from all lands came to 164 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 2: woo her for a bride. But she was as proud 165 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 2: as she was beautiful. She laughed all her suitors to scorn, 166 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 2: and when her father urged her to choose one of 167 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 2: them as her husband, she drew herself up haughtily. So 168 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 2: the story girl sprang to her feet, and for a 169 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 2: moment we saw the proud princess of the old tale 170 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: in all of her scornful loveliness, and she said, I 171 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 2: will not wed until a king comes who can conquer 172 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 2: all kings. Then I shall be the wife of the 173 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: king of the world. And no one can hold herself 174 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 2: higher than I. So every king went to war to 175 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 2: prove that he could conquer every one else, and there 176 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 2: was a great deal of bloodshed and misery. But the 177 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 2: proud princess laughed and sang, and she and her maidens 178 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: worked at a wonderful lace vale, which she meant to 179 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: wear when the King of all kings came. It was 180 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 2: a very beautiful veil, but her maidens whispered that a 181 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 2: man had died and a woman's heart had broken, for 182 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 2: every stitch set in it. Just when a king thought 183 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: he had conquered everybody, some other king would come and 184 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: conquer him. And so it went on until it did 185 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 2: not seem likely the proud princess would ever get a 186 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 2: husband at all. But still her pride was so great 187 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 2: that she would not yield, even though everybody except the 188 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 2: kings who wanted to marry her hated her for the 189 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 2: suffering she had caused. One day, a horn was blown 190 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: at the palace gate, and there was one tall man 191 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 2: in complete armor, with his visor down, riding on a 192 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 2: white horse. When he said he had come to marry 193 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 2: the princess, every one laughed, for he had no beautiful 194 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: apparel and no golden crown. But I am the king 195 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 2: who conquers all kings, he said, you must prove it 196 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: before I shall marry you, said, the proud princess, but 197 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 2: she trembled and turned pale, for there was something in 198 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 2: his voice that frightened her. And when he laughed, his 199 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: laughter was still more dreadful. I can easily prove it, 200 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 2: beautiful princess, he said, but you must go with me 201 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 2: to my kingdom for the proof. Marry me now, and 202 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 2: you and I and your father and all your court 203 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: will ride straightway to my kingdom. And if you are 204 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 2: not satisfied, then that I am the king who conquers 205 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: all kings, you may give me back my ring and 206 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 2: return home free of me forevermore. It was a strange wooing, 207 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 2: and the friends of the princess begged her to refuse, 208 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: but her pride whispered that it would be such a 209 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 2: wonderful thing to be the queen of the king of 210 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: the world. So she consented, and her maidens dressed her 211 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 2: and put on the long lace veil that had been 212 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 2: so many years a making. Then they were married at once, 213 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 2: but the bridegroom never lifted his visor, and no one 214 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 2: saw his face. The proud princess held herself more proudly 215 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 2: than ever, but she was as white as her veil, 216 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: and there was no laughter or merrymaking, such as should 217 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 2: be at a wedding, and everyone looked at everyone else 218 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 2: with fear in his eyes. After the wedding, the bridegroom 219 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 2: lifted his bride before him on his white horse, and 220 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 2: her father and all the members of his court mounted 221 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 2: to and rode after them. On and on they rode, 222 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 2: and the skies grew darker, and the wind blew and wailed, 223 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 2: and the shades of evening came down, and just in 224 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 2: the twilight, they rode into a dark valley filled with 225 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 2: tombs and graves. What have you brought me here for, 226 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 2: cried the proud princess angrily. This is my kingdom, he answered, 227 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: These are the tombs of the kings I have conquered. 228 00:18:54,119 --> 00:19:01,199 Speaker 2: Behold me, beautiful princess, I am death. He lifted his 229 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: visor all saw his awful face. The proud princess shrieked. 230 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 2: Come to my arms, my bride, he cried, I have 231 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: won you fairly. I am the king who conquers all kings. 232 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 2: He clasped her fainting form to his body and spurred 233 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 2: his white horse to the tombs. A tempest of rain 234 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 2: broke over the valley and blotted them from sight. Very sadly, 235 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 2: the old king and courtiers rode home, and never never 236 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 2: again did hume and eye behold the proud Princess. But 237 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 2: when those long white clouds sweep across the sky, the 238 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: country people in the land where she lived say, look you, 239 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 2: there is the wedding veil of the proud Princess. The 240 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 2: weird spell of the tale rested on us for some 241 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 2: moments after the story girl had finished. We had walked 242 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 2: with her in the place of death, and grown cold 243 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 2: with the horror that chilled the heart of the poor princess. 244 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 2: Dan presently broke the spell. You see, it doesn't do 245 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 2: too good to be proud Felicity, he remarked, giving her 246 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 2: a poke. You'd better not say too much about Peter's patches.