Found in the forest and brought up by a shepherd, an exquisitely beautiful child grows into a cruel and selfish boy. He rejects his true mother and from that moment his beauty forsakes him.
A gorgeous story about the consequences of cruelty and the rewards of a kind hand. Definite read.
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Nandini Morehas quoted8 months ago
'I am myself but a slave, yet may I give thee thy freedom.'
Nandini Morehas quoted8 months ago
No pity had he for the poor, or for those who were blind or maimed or in any way afflicted, but would cast stones at them and drive them forth on to the highway, and bid them beg their bread elsewhere, so that none save the outlaws came twice to that village to ask for alms.
Nandini Morehas quoted8 months ago
she shivered, and said to him: 'Wilt thou not close the door? There cometh a bitter wind into the house, and I am cold.'
'Into a house where a heart is hard cometh there not always a bitter wind?'