文档介绍：GLINDA OF OZ
GLINDA OF OZ
L. FRANK BAUM
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GLINDA OF OZ
CHAPTER One
The Call to Duty
Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace,
surrounded by her maids of honor -- a hundred of the most beautiful girls
of the Fairyland of Oz. The palace court was built of rare marbles,
exquisitely polished. Fountains tinkled musically here and there; the vast
colonnade, open to the south, allowed the maidens, as they raised their
heads from their embroideries, to gaze upon a vista of rose-hued fields and
groves of trees bearing fruits or laden with sweet-scented flowers. At times
one of the girls would start a song, the others joining in the chorus, or one
would rise and dance, gracefully swaying to the music of a harp played by
panion. And then Glinda smiled, glad to see her maids mixing play
with work.
Presently among the fields an object was seen moving, threading the
broad path that led to the castle gate. Some of the girls looked upon this
object enviously; the Sorceress merely gave it a glance and nodded her
stately head as if pleased, for it meant ing of her friend and
mistress -- the only one in all the land that Glinda bowed to.
Then up the path trotted a wooden animal attached to a red wagon, and
as the quaint steed halted at the gate there descended from the wagon two
young girls, Ozma, Ruler of Oz, and panion, Princess Dorothy.
Both were dressed in simple white muslin gowns, and as they ran up the
marble steps of the palace they laughed and chatted as gaily as if they
were not the most important persons in the world's loveliest fairyland.
The maids of honor had risen and stood with bowed heads to greet the
royal Ozma, while Glinda came forward with outstretched arms to greet
her guests.
"We've e on a visit, you know," said Ozma. "Both Dorothy
and I were wondering how we should pass the day when we happened to
think we'd not been to your Quadling Country for weeks, so we took the
Sawhorse and rode str