I meant for this to be a February post, but instead, February passed without a single blog entry. This is my failing.
I also wanted to write up my own retelling, because I love the story enough to want to get inside it like that. But every time I sat down to translate Google auto-'bot translation into Actual English, my energy and attention would flag every three sentences, or so. So I ended up just reposting translation from a Good Victorian Lady, instead.
If I had done that to start with, it would have been a February post.