In his translation of Madame la Comtesse d’Aulnoy’s fairy tale “Felicia and the Pot of Pinks,” Andrew Lang shows how kindness and virtue render a person as royalty, especially in a poor and virtue-less world.
When their father dies, Felicia and her brother Bruno are each left an inheritance. Felicia is given a silver ring and a pot of pinks, which a noble lady gave to her father and instructed him to give to Felicia. Bruno, on the other hand, gets the rest of his father’s possessions.
