Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz.
The Rose and the Ring 2 csillagozás
Between the kingdoms of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, there lived a mysterious personage, who was known in those countries as the Fairy Blackstick, from the ebony wand or crutch which she carried; on which she rode to the moon sometimes, or upon other excursions of business or pleasure, and with which she performed her wonders. When she was young, and had been first taught the art of conjuring by the necromancer, her father, she was always practicing her skill, whizzing about from one kingdom to another upon her black stick, and conferring her fairy favors upon this Prince or that.
Tagok ajánlása: Hány éves kortól ajánlod?
Várólistára tette 1
Kiemelt értékelések
Népszerű idézetek
It hung in the royal parlour over the royal sideboard, and Princess Angelica could always look at it as she sat making the tea. Each day it seemed to grow handsomer and handsomer, and the Princess grew so fond of looking at it, that she would often spill the tea over the cloth, at which her father and mother would wink and wag their heads, and say to each other, ‘Aha! we see how things are going.’
Yes,’ says the Fairy Blackstick, who had come to see the young people, and who had very likely certain plans regarding them. ‘That ring I gave the Queen, Giglio’s mother, who was not, saving your presence, a very wise woman; it is enchanted, and whoever wears it looks beautiful in the eyes of the world, I made poor Prince Bulbo, when he was christened, the present of a rose which made him look handsome while he had it; but he gave it to Angelica, who instantly looked beautiful again, whilst Bulbo relapsed into his natural plainness.’
But after two or three thousand years of this sport, I suppose Blackstick grew tired of it. Or perhaps she thought, ’What good am I doing by sending this Princess to sleep for a hundred years?, by fixing a black pudding ont hat booby’s nose? By causing diamods and pearls to drop from that girl’s mouth, and vipers and toads from another’s? I begin to think I do as much harm as good by my perfomances. I might as well shut my incantations up and allow things to take their natural course.
Had I the pen of a G.P.R. James, I would describe Valoroso’s torments in the choicest language? In which I would also depict his flashing eye, his distended nostril – his dressing gown, pocket handkerchief, and boots. But I need not say I have not the pen of that novelist: suffice it to say, Valoroso was alone.
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