When he told the good news to Joan, his wife, she rose from her chair and said, 'Let us go.' And they left the cottage, and repaired to Gwyntystorm.

And on a mountain above the city they built themselves a warm house for their old age, high in the clear air.
As Peter mined one day, at the back of the king's wine Cellar, he broke into a cavern crusted with gems, and much wealth flowed therefrom, and the king used it wisely.
Queen Irene--that was the right name of the old princess--was thereafter seldom long absent from the palace.

Once or twice when she was missing, Barbara, who seemed to know of her sometimes when nobody else had a notion whither she had gone, said she was with the dear old Uglies in the wood.

Curdie thought that perhaps her business might be with others there as well.

All the uppermost rooms in the palace were left to her use, and when any one was in need of her help, up thither he must go.