2.Won't I, Just?

The king tried to havepatience, but he succeeded very badly. It was more than he deserved, therefore,when, at last, the queen gave him a daughter—as lovely a little princess asever cried.

The day drew near when theinfant must be christened. The king wrote all the invitations with his ownhand. Of course somebody was forgotten. Now it does not generally matter ifsomebody is forgotten, only you must mind who. Unfortunately, the king forgot withoutintending to forget; and so the chance fell upon the Princess Makemnoit, whichwas awkward. For the princess was the king's own sister; and he ought not tohave forgotten her. But she had made herself so disagreeable to the old king,their father, that he had forgotten her in making his will; and so it was nowonder that her brother forgot her in writing his invitations. But poorrelations don't do anything to keep you in mind of them. Why don't they? Theking could not see into the garret she lived in, could he?

She was a sour, spitefulcreature. The wrinkles of contempt crossed the wrinkles of peevishness, andmade her face as full of wrinkles as a pat of butter. If ever a king could bejustified in forgetting anybody, this king was justified in forgetting hissister, even at a christening. She looked very odd, too. Her forehead was aslarge as all the rest of her face, and projected over it like a precipice. Whenshe was angry, her little eyes flashed blue. When she hated anybody, they shoneyellow and green. What they looked like when she loved anybody, I do not know;for I never heard of her loving anybody but herself, and I do not think shecould have managed that if she had not somehow got used to herself. But whatmade it highly imprudent in the king to forget her was that she was awfullyclever. In fact, she was a witch; and when she bewitched anybody, he very soonhad enough of it; for she beat all the wicked fairies in wickedness, and allthe clever ones in cleverness. She despised all the modes we read of inhistory, in which offended fairies and witches have taken their revenges; andtherefore, after waiting and waiting in vain for an invitation, she made up hermind at last to go without one, and make the whole family miserable, like a princessas she was.

   So she put on her best gown, went to thepalace, was kindly received by the happy monarch, who forgot that he hadforgotten her, and took her place in the procession to the royal chapel. Whenthey were all gathered about the font, she contrived to get next to it, andthrow something into the water; after which she maintained a very respectfuldemeanour till the water was applied to the child's face. But at that momentshe turned round in her place three times, and muttered the following words,loud enough for those beside her to hear:—

"Light of spirit, by my charms,
Light of body, every part,
Never weary human arms—
Only crush thy parents' heart!"

They all thought she hadlost her wits, and was repeating some foolish nursery rhyme; but a shudder wentthrough the whole of them notwithstanding. The baby, on the contrary, began tolaugh and crow; while the nurse gave a start and a smothered cry, for shethought she was struck with paralysis: she could not feel the baby in her arms.But she clasped it tight and said nothing. The mischief was done.

就我不能去？

国王努力希望自己可以心平气和，但越是忍着，就越是觉得气不顺。不过，到最后他还是如愿以偿了，因为王后给他生了一个女儿——一个哭闹不停可爱的小公主。

给小宝贝洗礼的日子一天天地临近了。国王亲手写好一份份请柬。当然，有些人就被遗漏了。

忘记某些人倒不是一件什么大事情，但是有些必须记住的人你千万不能忘记。不幸的是，国王一不留心就真的给忘了，而且他忘记的恰好就是麦克恩奥蒂公主。这下就尴尬了，因为这位公主是国王的亲姐姐，他本不应该忘记的。她一直就和老国王，也就是他们的父王不合，以至于老国王在遗嘱中都没有提到她。这也就难怪她的弟弟会忘记给她写请柬了。这种亲戚就是让你没法记住，对不对？

她是 她是一个脾气坏、心肠毒的女人。傲慢夹着恼怒，让她的脸上起了层层的皱纹，就像是块黄油疙瘩。

如果说偶尔忘记什么人是可以原谅的话，那么国王忘记他这个姐姐也是情有可原的，即使这是在受洗仪式上。

她看上去非常非常的古怪。她的额头看上去有半张脸那么大，而且还向前凸起，就像是悬崖一样。当她勃然大怒的时候，小眼睛会冒出蓝光；当她对什么人恨之入骨的时候，小眼睛就会闪耀出黄色和绿色的光。

至于她喜欢什么人的时候，两眼会放什么光，我不知道。因为我从来就没有听说过她还会喜欢什么人——除了她自己，而且我觉得，她是不是能和自己搞好关系，也是一件叫人吃不准的事。但是让国王忘记邀请她的主要原因，可能还是她那可怕的人品。事实上，她是个女巫，只要她对谁小施魔法，那个人很快就会大难临头。她用她的邪恶击败了所有邪恶的精灵，用她的狡猾击败了所有狡猾的精灵。她蔑视我们所知道的历史上一切规矩，哪怕是惹恼了其他的精灵和女巫，也不怕受到他们的报复。因此，在等了又等，仍然没有收到请柬的情况下，她下了决心，管它有没有请柬也要去，而且要让国王一家人都痛不欲生，就像她年轻时曾经做过的一样。

于是，她穿上自己最好的一件长袍去了王宫，受到了沉浸在幸福之中的国王的热情接待，他都不记得自己忘记邀请这个姐姐了，还立刻在王室礼堂的仪仗队中安排了她的位置。当人们聚集在洗礼台前的时候，她就开始谋划下一步行动。她向水里丢进去一些什么，然后摆出一副挺有礼貌的样子，直到圣水洒向孩子的面庞。就在那个时刻，她在原地转了三圈，然后嘴里念念有词，在她旁边的人可以清清楚楚地听到她念道：

冥灵轻轻，唯我魔令，

身形轻轻，追魂夺影，

让人们的臂腕永不疲倦——

只是要压碎你双亲的心！

人们都以为她疯了，不过是在重复一些无聊的童谣，不过所有的人都有一种不寒而栗的感觉。这时，小宝宝反倒开始咯咯发笑，保姆则吃惊地张大了嘴巴——她以为是自己的胳膊麻了，竟然完全感觉不到孩子在自己的臂弯中。

不过，她紧紧抱住孩子什么也没说。祸根就此悄然种下。