Sunday, September 16, 2012
"Once upon a time there was a princess. And she had everything that you could wish for and a great deal more. Now, near the palace was a cottage in which lived a poor, little, tiny woman. All alone. One day, the princess stopped at the cottage and said to the tiny woman, "Let me see what you keep there." And the tiny woman open her very secret place and showed the princess a shadow. It was the shadow of someone who'd gone by many years ago. "And you keep watch over this every day?" said the princess. "Yes," said the tiny woman. "Because no one so good or kind had ever passed that way ever since." [And the princess] realized that for all of her gold and silver and diamonds and rubies, she had nothing so precious to her as that shadow was to that tiny woman." Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens.
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