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第4章 奶妈是怎么想的

“哎呀，你去哪了啊，公主？”奶妈一把抱起公主。“你藏起来这么久可不乖啊。我都开始担心——”她欲言又止。
“你担心什么呀，嬷嬷？”公主问。
“没什么。”她答道，“改天我再告诉你。现在你先告诉我你去哪了。”
“我爬了好长的楼梯看见我的祖祖祖奶奶了。”公主说。
“你说什么？”奶妈问，她以为公主在跟她开玩笑。
“我说我向上爬了好长的楼梯，然后看见我的祖奶奶了。啊，嬷嬷，你都想不到我在楼上看见了一位多么美丽的奶奶的妈妈。她年纪很大很大，头发很白很白——就跟我的银杯子那么白。现在想起来，我觉得她的头发肯定是银的。”
“你在胡说些什么呢，公主！”奶妈说道。
“我没有胡说，”艾琳不高 兴地反驳道。“我跟你说吧。她比你高得多，还比你好看得多。”
“哦，那可不！”奶妈说。
“而且她吃鸽子的蛋过活。”
“肯定的。”奶妈说。
“她坐在一间空房子里，一整天都在纺织。”
“那还用问。”奶妈说。
“她把王冠放在她的卧室里。”
“当然了——多合适的放王冠的地方呀。她肯定睡觉的时候戴王冠吧。我敢打包票。”
“她没说。我觉得她不会的。睡觉的时候戴着肯定不舒服——对吧？我想我爸爸不会穿着睡袍戴王冠的。是吧，奶妈？”
“我没问过他。我猜他戴着。”
“她从我出生的时候就在那儿了——好多好多年了。”
“肯定是谁跟你讲的这些，”奶妈说，她根本一个字也不信艾琳的话。
“那，为什么你不告诉呢？”
“根本没必要嘛。你自己就编的一套一套的。”
“原来你根本不相信我！”公主大声说道，理所当然地，她很吃惊，也很生气。
“你以为我会相信你吗，公主？” 奶妈冷冷地问道。“据我所知，公主都爱装腔作势，可你是我知道的第一个非得让别人相信的公主，”看见这个小孩子奇怪的期待，她又补充了一句。

公主一下子哭了起来。
“我得说，”奶妈对公主的哭泣彻底不耐烦了，“当公主可不是为了凭着自己的地位胡编乱造些故事，然后强迫别人去相信的。”
“可我说的都是真的。”
“那你肯定是做梦了，孩子。”
“没有，我不是在做梦。我爬上了楼梯，然后我迷路了，要不是我遇见了那位美丽的妇人，我自己根本就找不着路回来。”
“哦，那可不！”
“好吧，那你跟我上去，看看我说的是不是真的。”
“我还有别的活儿要做。现在你该吃饭了，我也不想再听那些胡说八道了。”

CHAPTER4

What the Nurse Thought of It

'Why, where can you have been, princess?' asked the nurse, taking her in her arms. 'It'svery unkind of you to hide away so long. I began tobe afraid—'Here she checked herself.

'What were you afraid of, nursie?' asked the princess.

'Never mind,' she answered. 'Perhaps I will tell you another day.Now tell me where you have been.'

'I've been up a long way to see my very great, huge, old grandmother,' said the princess.

'What do you mean by that?' asked the nurse, who thought she was makingfun.

'I mean that I've been a long way up and up to see My GREATgrandmother. Ah, nursie, you don't know what a beautiful mother of grandmothers I've got upstairs. She is such an old lady, withsuch lovely white hair—as white as my silver cup. Now, when I think of it, Ithink her hair must be silver.'

'What nonsense you are talking, princess!' said the nurse.

'I'm not talking nonsense,' returned Irene, rather offended. 'Iwill tell you all about her. She's much taller than you, and much prettier.'

'Oh, I dare say!' remarked the nurse.

'And she lives upon pigeons' eggs.'

'Most likely,' said the nurse.

'And she sits in an empty room, spin-spinningall day long.'

'Not a doubt of it,' said the nurse.

'And she keeps her crown in her bedroom.'

'Of course—quite the proper place to keep her crown in. Shewears it in bed, I'll be bound.'

'She didn't say that. And I don't think she does. That wouldn't be comfortable—would it? I don't think my papawears his crown for a night-cap. Does he, nursie?'

'I never asked him. I dare say he does.'

'And she's been there ever since I came here—ever so manyyears.'

'Anybody could have told you that,' said the nurse, who did not believe a wordIrene was saying.

'Why didn't you tell me, then?'

'There was no necessity. You could make it all up foryourself.'

'You don't believe me, then!' exclaimed the princess, astonished and angry,as she well might be.

'Did you expect me to believeyou, princess?' asked the nurse coldly. 'I know princesses arein the habit of telling make-believes, but you are the first I ever heard ofwho expected to have them believed,' she added, seeing that the child was strangelyin earnest.

The princess burst intotears.

'Well, I must say,' remarked the nurse, now thoroughly vexed withher for crying, 'it is not at all becoming in a princessto tell stories and expect to be believed just because she is a princess.'

'But it's quite true, I tellyou.'

'You've dreamt it, then, child.'

'No, I didn't dream it. I went upstairs, and I lost myself,and if I hadn't found the beautiful lady, I should never have found myself.'

'Oh, I dare say!'

'Well, you just come up with me, and see if I'm not telling the truth.'

'Indeed I have other work to do. It's your dinnertime, andI won't have any more such nonsense.'