The Happy Prince (4)

The Happy Prince (4)

" What can you see ? " asked the swallow.

" Far off in a poor little street, " said the Prince,
" there is a house with an open window.
Inside the room a woman is sewing a beautiful dress for one of the queen's maids to wear at the ball.
In a bed close to her lies her little boy. He is very ill and his mother has no money to pay for a doctor to come. She has nothing to give her little boy but water. I think he is going to die. "

He continued, " Little swallow, will you take her the red jewel from the hilt of my sword ? She can sell it and buy food. I cannot take it to her
by myself because my feet are fixed to this pillar. " 

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