Общий курс английского языка. Часть 4 (В2 – С2). 16 201 английское слово. © Лингвистический Реаниматор - стр. 25

– You can be helped in your sorrow – there is such a remedy. But, if you want to return home, please, do me a favor too.

Weed my garden, chop wood for a month, fix the sunk fence. Then, perhaps, I will help you.

Of course, Alice agreed to the proposal of Wise Patrick. And he added, turning to Josephine:

– Your friend accepted my conditions, so let it be. Therefore, it’s enough for her to flutter through the flower fields. Turn her back into a human beiing, let her work! And make your goodbyes brief, girls, She has her hands full with pressing matters.

And so they did. Alice got back to her former state and set to work. She worked from morning dawning until late at night – rough calluses appeared on her hands, sometimes they bled painfully, she wore out her legs.

But the desire to return to her parents was so great that all those troubles seemed trifles to her. A week later, she complied with the order of the yard owner, and came to inform him about it.

– Well, I see, you have worked hard, you’ve not been afraid of work, you’ve not been lazy, now it is my turn to fulfill the promise.

He opened an emerald casket, which was on the oak table, and took out a small golden ring with sapphire.

– Put it on the little finger of your right hand, – he said. – and listen to what you need to do.

Turn the ring three times counterclockwise and say the spell: «Magic ring, save, magic ring, help, I want to be at home!»

Alice did everything exactly as Wise Patrick had taught, and a miracle happened. She opened her eyes and saw her mother:

– Finally, doctor, she has woken up! – she said joyfully and excitedly.

– That’s fine, dear Madeleine, and you’ve deigned to be so anxious all this time. I told you right away that the girl would come to her senses and recover, as soon as the crisis had been over.

– Mom, what happened to me? – Alice asked, not understanding anything.

– You got very sick, baby, and you have not been conscious for a week, kept raving and raving about some elves and their valley. But now everything is fine, soon you will completely recover.

– It’s great! – Alice said, smiling at mother.

Just at that very moment, her eyes accidentally fell on the little finger of her right hand, on which the small golden ring with sapphire sparkled.

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