Date: 2010-05-11 10:16 am (UTC)
Another interesting one is Harding's Luck, by E. Nesbit. It's true that Dickie, who is lame, chooses in the end not to be crippled - but it's a *difficult* choice, and that's not the major factor in the decision at all. It's some consolation to him that the life he chooses is a beautiful one in a sound body, but he's leaving people he loves and giving up a lot out of pure nobility. (Sorry for the spoiler, but the book is a hundred years old, after all.)

Also, I'm not convinced that your Maud is quite hte same thing. As you say, her blindness was deliberately caused by magic, so it's reasonable to cure it the same way. And I don't think she gets much in the end that she wouldn't have gotten anyway.
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