Just desserts, as any church might say. I heard another version, years later, on the roadβthat I told my own daughters.
( it has been hard, coming to a place where she can speak of them only wistfully; where she can speak of them at all. )
In another story, the witch appeared first to the younger daughter frail and filthy, much aged, far too weak to draw water from the well under her own power. The girl was kind, and gave her water, and rewarded for her kindness. When her sister was sent to be rewarded thus, the witch did not appear the same way; she was beautiful and stately, and the elder daughter scorned her when she asked for aid, and she was punished.
A witch might know your true heart; you may not judge for yourself another's true worth.
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( it has been hard, coming to a place where she can speak of them only wistfully; where she can speak of them at all. )
In another story, the witch appeared first to the younger daughter frail and filthy, much aged, far too weak to draw water from the well under her own power. The girl was kind, and gave her water, and rewarded for her kindness. When her sister was sent to be rewarded thus, the witch did not appear the same way; she was beautiful and stately, and the elder daughter scorned her when she asked for aid, and she was punished.
A witch might know your true heart; you may not judge for yourself another's true worth.