[The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookThe Princess and the Goblin CHAPTER 11 12/20
What is on the rock now will be enough.
I have a week's work there yet, though,' she added, looking at the bunch. 'Do you work all day and all night, too, great-great-great-great-grandmother ?' said the princess, thinking to be very polite with so many greats. 'I am not quite so great as all that,' she answered, smiling almost merrily.
'If you call me grandmother, that will do.
No, I don't work every night--only moonlit nights, and then no longer than the moon shines upon my wheel.
I shan't work much longer tonight.' 'And what will you do next, grandmother ?' 'Go to bed.
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