વાર્તાને કહેવા યોગ્ય કેમ બનાવવી? nightingale was more important than anything else, she felt. And besides, if she were going to be turned into a bird the pearls would not be of much use to her in any case. She was pretty sure that nightingales never wore pearl necklaces. ૧૨૫ The next day she slipped one of the pearls off her chain, and then she ran out of the castle and through the wood and down the hill, till she I came to the dark cave. The Wise Man smiled when he saw her. polan "Here is.." She began, and then could say no more, because of the lump in her throat. The Wise Man looked rather sorry for her but he took the pearl without speaking. Then he gave her the feather he had promised her, and she went away again. As she climbed the hill, and ran back through the wood to the castle, she tried to feel glad that she had the feather instead the pearl. For a long, long time the same thing happened every day. Every day Agatha slipped a pearl off her chain and then ran out of the castle and through the wood and down the hill, till she came to the dark cave; and every day she brought home a little feather instead of her pearl. The long loop of the chain grew shorter
