"No, my darling. But you must understand that no one ever gives
anything
to another properly and really without keeping it. That ball is yours."
"Oh! I'm not to take it with me! You are going to keep it for me!"
"You are to take it with you. I've fastened the end of it to the ring on
your finger."
Irene looked at the ring.
"I can't see it there, grandmother," she said.
"Feel--a little way from the ring--toward the cabinet," said the lady.
"Oh! I do feel it!" exclaimed the princess. "But I can't see it," she
added, looking close to her outstretched hand.
"No. The thread is too fine for you to see it. You can only feel it. Now
you can fancy how much spinning that took, although it does seem
such a
little ball."
Madhuri Noah
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