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Summary of " The Nightingale and The Rose"

The story begins with a student that wanted to dance with the daugther of the professor, but she put a condition, the student should give her a red rose, however the student didn't have a red rose in his garden and he started to cry, the Nightingale saw the student and listened the situation, so she decided to help him. The nightingale searched in the garden a red rose, but all were white or yellow. Finally she came to a rose tree near the student's window and asked him if his roses are red, the  rose tree told her that his roses are red but the winter was very cold and could not have roses, although there was a way to get a red rose, the Nightingale should give her life and sing all night with a thorn buried in the heart. The Nightingale accepted and did the sacrifice, in the morning the student saw the rose and ran to the house of the girl with the red rose, but she reject it because the rose did not match with her dress and the student threw the rose to the street disillusioned of the love.