But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed {Rosie} had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations {including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again"} eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.
( Robin McKinley )
[ Spindle's End ]
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