The wonderful Sheep (22) [The Wonderful Sheep]
The wonderful Sheep (22)
" " For five years, " she said, " you shall be a sheep, and lord of this pleasant land, while I, no longer able to see your face, which I love so much, shall be better able to hate you as you deserve to be hated. "
" She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too unhappy to care about anything I should have been glad that she was gone. "
" The talking sheep received me as their king, and told me that they, too, were unfortunate princes who had, in different ways, offended the revengeful fairy, and had been added to her flock for a certain number of years ; some more, some less. From time to time, indeed, one regains his own proper form and goes back again to his place in the upper world ; but the other beings whom you saw are the rivals or enemies of Ragotte, whom she has imprisoned for a hundred years or so ; though even they will go back at last. "
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