" Is it possible?" said the gentleman-in-waiting. " I should never have thought it was like that. How common it looks! Seeing so many grand people must have frightened all its colours away." Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Nightingale. From Stories PacificStock
Then it again burst into its sweet heavenly song. " That is the most delightful coquetting I have ever seen!" said the ladies and they took some water into their mouths to try and make the same gurgling thinking so to equal the nightingale. Illustration PacificStock