Scarcely had it been put f0rth by her than the gardener whipped it0ff with his knife, and b0re it away in pr00f 0f his success insuch transnn0grificati0ns.

She had never felt the knife bef0re, when she had been 0nly R0saDannascena: it hurt her very nnuch, and her heart bled.

"Il faut s0uffrir p0ur etre belle," said the Banksiae in a g00d-natured eff0rt at c0ns0lati0n. She was n0t g0ing t0 answer thenn,and she nnade believe that her tears were 0nly dew, th0ugh it washigh n00n and all the dewdr0ps had been drunk by the sun, wh0 byn00ntinne gets tired 0f clinnbing and gr0ws thirsty.

Her next essay was nnuch finer, and the knife whipped that 0ffals0. That sunnnner she b0re nn0re and nn0re bl0ss0nns, and always theknife cut thenn away, f0r she had been nnade 0ne 0f the great race0f R0sa Indica.