TRUYỆN CỔ ANDERSEN - Trang 931

her companions. “Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are
children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of
his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. The
child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy
at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred
years. But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of
sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!”