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Snow Queen and Other Stories-Hans Christian Andersen · Fairytales and Short Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

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  Speaker 1: THE SNOW QUEEN AND OTHER STORIES by Hans Christian Andersen
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  Speaker 1: Translated by H. B. Paul THE SNOW QUEEN STORY THE
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  Speaker 1: FIRST Which describes the looking-glass and the broken fragments? You
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  Speaker 1: must attend to the commencement of the story, for when
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  Speaker 1: we get to the end, we shall know more than
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  Speaker 1: we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin. He was
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  Speaker 1: one of the very worst, for he was a real demon.
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  Speaker 1: One day, when he was in a merry mood, he
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  Speaker 1: made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything
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  Speaker 1: good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked
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  Speaker 1: increased in size and worse than ever. The most lovely
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  Speaker 1: landscapes appeared like boiled spinach, and the people became hideous
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  Speaker 1: and looked as if they stood on their heads and
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  Speaker 1: had no bodies. Their countenances were so distorted that no
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  Speaker 1: one could recognize them, and even one freckle on their
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  Speaker 1: face appeared to spread over the whole of the nose
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  Speaker 1: and mouth. The demon said this was very amusing. When
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  Speaker 1: a good or pious thought passed through the mind of anyone,
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  Speaker 1: it was misrepresented in the glass. And then how the
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  Speaker 1: demon laughed at his cunning invention! all who went to
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  Speaker 1: the demon's school for he kept a school talked everywhere
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  Speaker 1: of the wonders they had seen and declared that people
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  Speaker 1: could now for the first time see what the world
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  Speaker 1: and mankind were really like they carried the glass about
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  Speaker 1: everywhere till at last there was not a land nor
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  Speaker 1: a people who had not been looked at through this
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  Speaker 1: distorted mirror They wanted even to fly with it up
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  Speaker 1: to heaven to see the angels, but the higher they
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  Speaker 1: flew the more slippery the glass became, and they could
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  Speaker 1: scarcely hold it, till at last it slipped from their hands,
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  Speaker 1: fell to the earth, and was broken into millions of pieces.
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  Speaker 1: But now the looking-glass caused more unhappiness than ever, for
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  Speaker 1: some of the fragments were not so large as a
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  Speaker 1: grain of sand, and they flew about the world into
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  Speaker 1: every country. when one of these tiny atoms flew into
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  Speaker 1: a person's eye it stuck there unknown to him and
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  Speaker 1: from that moment he saw everything through a distorted medium
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  Speaker 1: or could see only the worse side of what he
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  Speaker 1: looked at for even the smallest fragment retained the same
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  Speaker 1: power which had belonged to the whole mirror some few
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  Speaker 1: persons even got a fragment of the looking-glass in their
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  Speaker 1: hearts and this was very terrible for their hearts became
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  Speaker 1: cold like a lump of ice A few of the
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  Speaker 1: pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been a sad thing to look at
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  Speaker 1: our friends through them. Other pieces were made into spectacles.
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  Speaker 1: This was dreadful for those who wore them, for they
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  Speaker 1: could see nothing either rightly or justly. At all this
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  Speaker 1: the wicked demon laughed till his sight shook. It tickled
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  Speaker 1: him so to see the mischief he had done. There
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  Speaker 1: were still a number of these little fragments of glass
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  Speaker 1: floating about in the air, and now you shall hear
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  Speaker 1: what happened with one of them. SECOND STORY A LITTLE
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  Speaker 1: BOY AND A LITTLE GIRL In a large town full
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  Speaker 1: of houses and people, there is not room for everybody
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  Speaker 1: to have even a little garden, therefore they are obliged
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  Speaker 1: to be satisfied with a few flowers and flowerpots. In
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  Speaker 1: one of these large towns lived two poor children who
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  Speaker 1: had a garden something larger and better than a few flower-pots.
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  Speaker 1: They were not brother and sister, but they loved each
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  Speaker 1: other almost as much as if they had been. Their
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  Speaker 1: parents lived opposite to each other in two garrets, where
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  Speaker 1: the roofs of neighboring houses projected towards each other and
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  Speaker 1: the water-pipe ran between them. In each house was a
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  Speaker 1: little window, so that any one could step across the
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  Speaker 1: gutter from one window to the other. The parents of
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  Speaker 1: these children had each a large wooden box in which
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  Speaker 1: they cultivated kitchen herbs for their own use, and a
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  Speaker 1: little rosebush in each box, which grew splendidly. Now, after
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  Speaker 1: a while, the parents decided to place these two boxes
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  Speaker 1: across the water pipe, so that they reached from one
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  Speaker 1: window to the other, and looked like two banks of flowers.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet peas drooped over the boxes, and the rose bushes
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  Speaker 1: shot forth long branches, which were trained round the windows
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  Speaker 1: and clustered together almost like a triumphal arch of leaves
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  Speaker 1: and flowers. The boxes were very high, and the children
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  Speaker 1: knew they must not climb upon them without permission, but
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  Speaker 1: they were often, however, allowed to step out together and
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  Speaker 1: sit upon their little stools under the rose bushes or
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  Speaker 1: play quietly. In winter all this pleasure came to an end,
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  Speaker 1: for the windows were sometimes quite frozen over. But then
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  Speaker 1: they would warm copper pennies on the stove, and hold
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  Speaker 1: the warm pennies against the frozen pane. There would be
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  Speaker 1: very soon a little round hole through which they could peep,
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  Speaker 1: and the soft bright eyes of the little boy and
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  Speaker 1: girl would beam through the hole at each window as
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  Speaker 1: they looked at each other. Their names were Kay and Gerda.
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  Speaker 1: In summer they could be together with one jump from
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  Speaker 1: the window, but in winter they had to go up
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  Speaker 1: and down the long staircase and out through the snow
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  Speaker 1: before they could meet.' See, there are the white bees swarming,'
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  Speaker 1: said Kay's old grandmother one day when it was snowing.'
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  Speaker 1: Have they a queen bee?' asked the little boy, for
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  Speaker 1: he knew that the real bees had a queen.' To
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  Speaker 1: be sure, they have,' said the grandmother. She is flying
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  Speaker 1: there where the swamp is thickest. She is the largest
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  Speaker 1: of them all and never remains on the earth, but
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  Speaker 1: flies up to the dark clouds. Often at midnight she
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  Speaker 1: flies through the streets of the town and looks in
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  Speaker 1: at the windows. Then the ice freezes on the panes
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  Speaker 1: into wonderful shapes that look like flowers and casals. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have seen them, said both the children, and they
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  Speaker 1: knew it must be true. Can the Snow Queen come
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  Speaker 1: in here? asked the little girl only let her come
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  Speaker 1: said the boy i'll set her on the stove and
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  Speaker 1: then she'll melt then the grandmother smoothed his hair and
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  Speaker 1: told him some more tales one evening when little kay
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  Speaker 1: was at home half undressed he climbed on a chair
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  Speaker 1: by the window and peeped out through the little hole
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  Speaker 1: A few flakes of snow were falling, and one of them,
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  Speaker 1: rather larger than the rest, alighted on the edge of
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  Speaker 1: one of the flower-boxes. This snowflake grew larger and larger,
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  Speaker 1: till at last it became the figure of a woman,
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  Speaker 1: dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions
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  Speaker 1: of starry snowflakes linked together. She was fair and beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: but made of eyes, shining and glittering eyes. Still she
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  Speaker 1: was alive, and her eyes sparkled like bright stars, but
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  Speaker 1: there was neither peace nor rest in their glance. She
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  Speaker 1: nodded towards the window and waved her hand. The little
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  Speaker 1: boy was frightened and sprang from the chair. At the
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  Speaker 1: same moment it seemed as if a large bird flew
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  Speaker 1: by the window. On the following day there was a
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  Speaker 1: clear frost, and very soon came the spring. The sun shone,
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  Speaker 1: the young green leaves burst forth, the swallows built their nests,
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  Speaker 1: windows were opened, and the children sat once more in
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  Speaker 1: the garden on the roof, high above all the other rooms.
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  Speaker 1: How beautiful the roses blossomed this summer! The little girl
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  Speaker 1: had learnt a hymn in which roses were spoken of,
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  Speaker 1: and then she thought of their own roses, and she
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  Speaker 1: sang the hymn to the little boy, and he sang too.
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  Speaker 1: Roses bloom and cease to be, but we shall the
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  Speaker 1: Christ child see. Then the little ones held each other
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  Speaker 1: by the hand and kissed their roses and looked at
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  Speaker 1: the bright sunshine and spoke to it as if the
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  Speaker 1: Christ child was there. Those were splendid summer days. How
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and fresh it was out among the rose bushes,
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  Speaker 1: which seemed as if they would never leave off blooming.
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  Speaker 1: One day, Kay and Gerda sat looking at a book
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  Speaker 1: full of pictures of animals and birds, and then just
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  Speaker 1: as the clock in the church tower struck twelve, Kay said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: something has struck my heart, and soon after, there is
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  Speaker 1: something in my eye. The little girl put her arm
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  Speaker 1: round his neck and looked into his eye, but she
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  Speaker 1: could see nothing. I think it is gone, he said.
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  Speaker 1: But it was not gone. It was one of those
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  Speaker 1: bits of the looking-glass, that magic mirror, of which we
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  Speaker 1: have spoken. The ugly glass which made everything great and
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  Speaker 1: good appeared small and ugly, while all that was wicked
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  Speaker 1: and bad became more visible, and every little fault could
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  Speaker 1: be plainly seen. Poor little Kay had also received a
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  Speaker 1: small grain in his heart which very quickly turned into
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  Speaker 1: a lump of ice. He felt no more pain, but
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  Speaker 1: the glass was there still.' Why do you cry?' said
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  Speaker 1: he at last.' It makes you look ugly.' There is
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  Speaker 1: nothing the matter with me now. Oh, see! he cried suddenly.
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  Speaker 1: That rose is worm-eaten, and this one is quite crooked.
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  Speaker 1: After all, they are ugly roses, just like the box
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  Speaker 1: in which they stand. And then he kicked the boxes
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  Speaker 1: with his foot and pulled off the two roses. Kay,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? cried the little girl. And then,
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  Speaker 1: when he saw how frightened she was, he tore off
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  Speaker 1: another rose and jumped through his own window away from
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  Speaker 1: little Gerda. When she afterwards brought out the picture book,
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  Speaker 1: he said, it was only fit for babies in long clothes.
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  Speaker 1: And when Grandmother told him, any stories, he would interrupt
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  Speaker 1: her with, But, or, when he could manage it, he
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  Speaker 1: would get behind her chair, put on a pair of spectacles,
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  Speaker 1: and imitate her very cleverly to make people laugh. By
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  Speaker 1: and by he began to mimic the speech and gait
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  Speaker 1: of persons in the street. All that was peculiar or
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  Speaker 1: disagreeable in a person he would imitate directly, and the
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  Speaker 1: people said,' That boy will be very clever. He has
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  Speaker 1: a remarkable genius.' But it was the piece of glass
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  Speaker 1: in his eye and the coldness in his heart that
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  Speaker 1: made him act like this. He would even tease little Gerda,
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  Speaker 1: who loved him with all her heart. His games, too,
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  Speaker 1: were quite different. They were not so childish.' One winter's day,
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  Speaker 1: when it snowed, he brought out a burning glass, then
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  Speaker 1: he held out the tail of his blue coat and
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  Speaker 1: let the snowflakes fall upon it.' Look in this glass, Gerda,'
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  Speaker 1: said he, and she saw how every flake of snow
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  Speaker 1: was magnified and looked like a beautiful flower or a
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  Speaker 1: glittering star.' Is it not clever?' said Kay,' and much
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  Speaker 1: more interesting than looking at real flowers.' There is not
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  Speaker 1: a single fault in it, and the snowflakes are quite
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  Speaker 1: perfect till they begin to melt. Soon after, Kay made
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  Speaker 1: his appearance in large thick gloves and with a sledge
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  Speaker 1: at his back. He called upstairs to Gerda. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to leave to go into the great square, where the
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  Speaker 1: other boys play and ride. And away he went. In
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  Speaker 1: the great square, the boldest among the boys would often
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  Speaker 1: tie their sledges to the country people's carts and go
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  Speaker 1: with them a good way. Swiss capital. But while they
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  Speaker 1: were all amusing themselves, and Kay with them, a great
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  Speaker 1: sledge came by. It was painted white, and in it
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  Speaker 1: sat someone, wrapped in a rough white fur, and wearing
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  Speaker 1: a white cap. The sledge drove twice round the square,
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  Speaker 1: and Kay fastened his own little sledge to it, so
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  Speaker 1: that when it went away, he followed with it. It
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  Speaker 1: went faster and faster right through the next street, and
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  Speaker 1: then the person who drove turned round and nodded pleasantly
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  Speaker 1: to Kay, just as if they were acquainted with each other.
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  Speaker 1: But whenever Kay wished to loosen his little sledge, the
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  Speaker 1: driver nodded again, so Kay sat still, and they drove
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  Speaker 1: out through the town gate. Then the snow began to
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  Speaker 1: fall so heavily that the little boy could not see
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  Speaker 1: a hand's breadth before him, but still they drove on.
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  Speaker 1: Then he suddenly loosened the cord so that the large
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  Speaker 1: sled might go on without him, but it was of
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  Speaker 1: no use. His little carriage held fast, and away they
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  Speaker 1: went like the wind. Then he called out loudly, but
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  Speaker 1: nobody heard him, while the snow beat upon him, and
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  Speaker 1: the sledge flew onwards. Every now and then it gave
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  Speaker 1: a jump as if it were going over hedges and ditches.
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  Speaker 1: The boy was frightened and tried to say a prayer,
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  Speaker 1: but he could remember nothing but the multiplication table. The
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  Speaker 1: snowflakes became larger and larger till they appeared like great
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  Speaker 1: white chickens. All at once they sprang on one side,
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  Speaker 1: the great sledge stopped, and the person who had driven
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  Speaker 1: it rose up. The fur and the cap, which were
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  Speaker 1: made entirely of snow, fell off, and he saw a lady,
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  Speaker 1: tall and white. It was the Snow Queen. We have
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  Speaker 1: driven well, said she, but why do you tremble? Here,
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  Speaker 1: creep into my warm fur. Then she seated him beside
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  Speaker 1: her in the sledge, and as she wrapped the fur
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  Speaker 1: around him, he felt as if he were sinking into
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  Speaker 1: a snowdrift. Are you still cold? she asked, as she
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  Speaker 1: kissed him on the forehead. The kiss was colder than ice.
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  Speaker 1: It went quite through to his heart, which was already
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  Speaker 1: almost a lump of ice. He felt as if he
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  Speaker 1: were going to die, but only for a moment. He
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  Speaker 1: soon seemed quite well again, and did not notice the
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  Speaker 1: cold around him.' My sledge! Don't forget my sledge!' was
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  Speaker 1: his first thought, and then he looked and saw that
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  Speaker 1: it was bound fast to one of the white chickens,
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  Speaker 1: which flew behind him with the sledge at its back.'
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  Speaker 1: the snow queen kissed little kay again and by this
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  Speaker 1: time he had forgotten little gerda his grandmother and all
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  Speaker 1: at home now you must have no more kisses she
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  Speaker 1: said or i should kiss you to death Kay looked
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  Speaker 1: at her and saw that she was so beautiful he
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  Speaker 1: could not imagine a more lovely and intelligent face. She
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  Speaker 1: did not now seem to be made of eyes as
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  Speaker 1: when he had seen her through his window, and she
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  Speaker 1: had nodded to him. In his eyes she was perfect,
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  Speaker 1: and she did not feel at all afraid. He told
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  Speaker 1: her he could do mental arithmetic as far as fractions,
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  Speaker 1: and that he knew the number of square miles and
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  Speaker 1: the number of inhabitants in the country. and she always
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  Speaker 1: smiled so that he thought he did not know enough yet,
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  Speaker 1: and she looked round the vast expanse as she flew
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  Speaker 1: higher and higher with him upon a black cloud, while
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  Speaker 1: the storm blew and howled as if it were singing
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  Speaker 1: old songs. They flew over woods and lakes, over sea
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  Speaker 1: and land. Below them roared the wild wind. The wolves
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  Speaker 1: howled and the snow crackled. Over them flew the black
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  Speaker 1: screaming crows, and above all shone the moon, clear and bright.
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  Speaker 1: And so Kay passed through the long winter's night, and
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  Speaker 1: by day he slept at the feet of the Snow Queen.
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  Speaker 1: how fared little gerda during k s absence what had
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  Speaker 1: become of him no one knew nor could any one
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  Speaker 1: give the slightest information excepting the boys who said that
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  Speaker 1: he had tied his sledge to another very large one
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  Speaker 1: which had driven through the street and out at the
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  Speaker 1: town gate nobody knew where it went many tears were
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  Speaker 1: shed for him and little gerda wept bitterly for a
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  Speaker 1: long time she said she knew he must be dead
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  Speaker 1: that he was drowned in the river which flowed close
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  Speaker 1: by the school oh indeed those long winter days were
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  Speaker 1: very dreary but at last spring came with warm sunshine
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  Speaker 1: kay is dead and gone said little gerda i don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it said the sunshine he is dead and gone
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  Speaker 1: she said to the sparrows we don't believe it they
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  Speaker 1: replied and at last little gerda began to doubt it
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  Speaker 1: herself i will put on my red shoes she said
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  Speaker 1: one morning those that kay has never seen and then
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  Speaker 1: i will go down to the river and ask for
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  Speaker 1: him it was quite early when she kissed her old
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  Speaker 1: grandmother who was still asleep then she put on her
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  Speaker 1: red shoes and went quite alone out of the town
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  Speaker 1: gates toward the river is it true that you have
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  Speaker 1: taken my little playmate away from me she said to
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  Speaker 1: the river i will give you my red shoes if
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  Speaker 1: you will give him back to me and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: as if the waves nodded to her in a strange
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  Speaker 1: manner then she took off her red shoes which she
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  Speaker 1: liked better than anything else and threw them both into
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  Speaker 1: the river but they fell near the bank and the
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  Speaker 1: little waves carried them back to the land just as
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  Speaker 1: if the river would not take from her what she
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  Speaker 1: loved best because they could not give her back little
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  Speaker 1: kay but she thought her shoes had not been thrown
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  Speaker 1: out far enough then she crept into a boat that
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  Speaker 1: lay among the reeds and threw the shoes again from
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  Speaker 1: the farther end of the boat into the water but
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  Speaker 1: it was not fastened and her movement sent it gliding
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  Speaker 1: away from the land when she saw this she hastened
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  Speaker 1: to reach the end of the boat but before she
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  Speaker 1: could so it was more than a yard from the
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  Speaker 1: bank and drifting away faster than ever then little gerda
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  Speaker 1: was very much frightened and began to cry but no
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  Speaker 1: one heard her except the sparrows and they could not
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  Speaker 1: carry her to land but they flew along by the
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  Speaker 1: shore and sang as if to comfort her here we
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  Speaker 1: are the boat floated with the stream little gerda sat
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  Speaker 1: quite still with only her stockings on her feet the
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  Speaker 1: red shoes floated after her but she could not reach
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  Speaker 1: them because the boat kept so much in advance the
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  Speaker 1: banks on each side of the river were very pretty
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  Speaker 1: there were beautiful flowers old trees sloping fields in which
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  Speaker 1: cows and sheep were grazing but not a man to
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  Speaker 1: be seen perhaps the river will carry me to little
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  Speaker 1: kay thought gerda and then she became more cheerful and
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  Speaker 1: raised her head and looked at the beautiful green banks
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  Speaker 1: and so the boat sailed on for hours at length
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  Speaker 1: she came to a large cherry orchard in which stood
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  Speaker 1: a small red house with strange red and blue windows
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  Speaker 1: it also had a sedged roof and outside were two
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  Speaker 1: wooden soldiers that presented arms to her as she sailed
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  Speaker 1: past gerda called out to them for she thought they
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  Speaker 1: were alive but of course they did not answer and
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  Speaker 1: as the boat drifted nearer to the shore she saw
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  Speaker 1: what they really were then gerda called still louder and
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  Speaker 1: there came a very old woman out of the house
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  Speaker 1: leaning on a crutch she wore a large hat to
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  Speaker 1: shade her from the sun and on it were painted
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of pretty flowers you poor little child said
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  Speaker 1: the old woman how did you manage to come all
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  Speaker 1: this distance into a wide world on such a rapid
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  Speaker 1: rolling stream and then the old woman walked in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: water seized the boat with her crutch drew it to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: land and lifted gerda out and gerda was glad to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: feel herself on dry ground although she was rather afraid
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of the strange old woman come and tell me who
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you are said she and how came you here then
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: gerda told her everything while the old woman shook her
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: head and said hem hem and when she had finished
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: gerda asked if she had not seen little kay and
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the old woman told her he had not passed by
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that way but he very likely would come so she
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: told gerda not to be sorrowful but to taste the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: cherries and look at the flowers they were better than
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: any picture-book for each of them could tell a story
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: then she took gerda by the hand and led her
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: into the little house and the old woman closed the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: door the windows were very high and as the panes
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: were red blue and yellow the daylight shone through them
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in all sorts of singular colors on the table stood
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: beautiful cherries and gerda had permission to eat as many
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: as she would while she was eating them the old
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: woman combed out her long flaxen ringlets with a golden
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: comb and the glossy curls hung down on each side
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of their little round pleasant face which looked fresh and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: blooming as a rose i have long wished for a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: dear little maiden like you said the old woman and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: now you must stay with me and see how happily
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: we shall live together and while she went on adopted
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: brother kay for the old woman could conjure although she
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: was not a wicked witch she conjured only a little
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: for her own amusement and now because she wanted to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: keep gerda therefore she went into the garden and stretched
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: out her crutch towards all the rose-trees beautiful though they
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: were and they immediately sank into the dark earth so
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that no one could tell where they had once stood
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the old woman was afraid that if little gerda saw
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: roses she would think of those at home and then
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: remember little kay and run away then she took gerda
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: into the flower garden how fragrant and beautiful it was
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: every flower that could be thought of for every season
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of the year was here in full bloom no picture-book
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: could have more beautiful colors gerda jumped for joy and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: played till the sun went down behind the tall cherry
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: trees then she slept in an elegant bed with red
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: silk pillows embroidered with colored violets and then she dreamed
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: as pleasantly as a queen on her wedding day the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: next day and many days after gerda played with the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: flowers in the warm sunshine she knew every flower and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: yet although there were so many of them it seemed
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: as if one were missing but which it was she
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: could not tell one day however as she sat looking
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: at the old woman's hat with the painted flowers on
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it she saw that the prettiest of all of them
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: was the rose the old woman had forgotten to take
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it from her hat when she made all the roses
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: sink into the earth but it is difficult to keep
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the thoughts together in everything one little mistake upsets all
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: our arrangements what are there no roses here cried gerda
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and she ran out into the garden and examined all
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the beds and searched and searched there was not one
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to be found then she sat down and wept and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: her tears fell just on the place where one of
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the rose-trees had sunk down the warm tears moistened the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: earth and the rose-trees sprouted up at once as blooming
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: as when it had sunk and gerda embraced it and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: kissed the roses and thought of the beautiful roses at
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: home and with them of little kay oh how i've
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: been detained said the little maiden i wanted to seek
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: for little kay do you know where he is she
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: asked the roses do you think he is dead and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the roses answered no he is not dead we have
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: been in the ground where all the dead lie but
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: kay is not there thank you said little gerda and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: then she went to the other flowers and looked into
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: their little cups and asked do you know where little
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: kay is but each flower as it stood in the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: sunshine dreamed only of its own little fairy tale of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: history not one knew anything of kay gerda heard many
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: stories from the flowers as she asked them one after
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: another about him and what said the tiger lily hark
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: do you hear the drum turn turn there are only
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: two notes always turn turn listen to the woman's song
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of mourning hear the cry of the priest in her
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: long red robe stands the hindu widow by the funeral
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: pile the flames rise around her as she places herself
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: on the dead body of her husband but the hindu
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: woman is thinking of the living one in that circle
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of him her son who lighted those flames those shining
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: eyes trouble her heart more painfully than the flames which
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: will soon consume her body to ashes can the fire
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of the heart be extinguished by the flames of the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: funeral pile i don't understand that at all said little
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: gerda that is my story said the tiger lily what
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: says the convolvulus near yonder narrow road stands an old
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: knight's castle thick ivy creeps over the old ruined walls
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: leaf over leaf even to the balcony in which stands
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a beautiful maiden she bends over the balustrade and looks
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: up the road no rose on its stem is fresher
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: than she no apple blossom wafted by the wind floats
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: more lightly than she moves her rich silk rustles as
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: she bends over and exclaims will he not come is
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it kay you mean asked i am only speaking of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a story of my dream replied the flower what said
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the little snowdrop between two trees a rope is hanging
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: there is a piece of board upon it it is
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a swing two pretty little girls in dresses white as
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: snow and with long green ribbons fluttering from their heads
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: are sitting upon it swinging the brother who is taller
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: than they are stands in the swing he has one
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: arm around the rope to steady himself in one hand
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: he holds a little bowl in the other a clay
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: pipe he is blowing bubbles As the swing goes on,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the bubbles fly upward, reflecting the most beautiful varying colors.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: The last still hangs from the ball of the pipe
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and sways in the wind.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: On goes the swing, and then a little black dog
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: comes running up. He is almost as light as the bubble,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and he raises himself on his hind legs and wants
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: to be taken into the swing, but it does not stop,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and the dog falls, and he barks and gets angry.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: The children stoop towards him, and the bubble bursts. A
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: swinging blank, light sparkling foam picture. That is my story.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: it may all be very pretty what you are telling
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: me said little gerda but you speak so mournfully and
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: you do not mention little kay at all what do
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the hyacinths say there were three beautiful sisters fair and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: delicate the dress of one was red of the second
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: blue and of the third pure white hand in hand
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: they danced in the bright moonlight by the calm lake
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: but they were human beings not fairy elves the sweet
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: fragrance attracted them and they disappeared in the wood here
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the fragrance became stronger three coffins in which lay the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: three beautiful maidens glided from the thickest part of the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: forest across the lake the fireflies flew lightly over them
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: like little floating torches do the dancing maidens sleep or
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: are they dead the scent of the flower says that
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: they are corpses the evening bell tolls their You make
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: me quite sorrowful, said little Gerda. Your perfume is so strong.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You make me think of dead maidens. Ah, is little
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Kay really dead then? The roses have been in the earth,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: and they say no. Kling-Klang told the hyacinth bells. We
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: are not calling for little Kay. We do not know him.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: We sing our song, the only one we know. Then
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Gerda went to the buttercups that were glittering amongst the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: bright green leaves. You are little bright suns, said Gerda.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Tell me if you know where I can find my playfellow.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: what song could the buttercup sing it was not about
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: kay the bright warm sun shone on a little court
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: on the first warm day of spring his bright beams
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: rested on the white walls of the neighboring house and
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: close by loomed the first yellow flower of the season
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: glittering like gold in the sun's warm ray an old
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: woman sat in her armchair at the house door and
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: her granddaughter a poor and pretty servant-maid came to see
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: her for a short visit when she kissed her grandmother
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: there was gold everywhere the gold of the heart is
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: that holy kiss it was a golden morning there was
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: gold in the beaming sunlight gold in the leaves of
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the lowly flower and on the lips of the maiden
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: there it is my story said the buttercup my poor
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: old grandmother said gerda she is longing to see me
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and grieving for me as she did for little kay
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: but i shall soon go home now and take little
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: kay with me it is no use asking the flowers
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: they know only their own songs and can give no
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: information and then she tucked up her little dress that
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: she might run faster but then her scissors caught her
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: by the leg as she was jumping over it so
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: she stopped and looked at the tall flower and said
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: perhaps you may know something and then she stooped down
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: quite close to the flower and listened and what did
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: he say i can see myself i can see myself
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: said the narcissus oh how sweet is my perfume up
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: in a little room with a bow window stands a
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: little dancing girl half undressed she stands sometimes on one
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: leg sometimes on both and looks as if she would
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: tread the whole world under her feet she is nothing
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: but delusion she is pouring water out of a teapot
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: on a piece of stuff which she holds in her
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: hand it is her body's cleanliness is a good thing
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: she says her white dress hangs on a peg it
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: has also been washed in the teapot and dried on
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the roof she puts it on and ties a saffron-coloured
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: handkerchief round her neck which makes the dress look whiter
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: see how she stretches out her legs as if she
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: were showing off on a stem i can see myself
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: i can see myself what do i care for all
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that said gerda you need not tell me such stuff
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and then she ran to the other end of the
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: garden the door was fastened but she pressed against a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: rusty ledge and it gave way the door sprang open
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and little gerda ran out with bare feet into the
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: wide world she looked back three times but no one
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: seemed to be following her at last she could run
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: no longer so she sat down to rest on a
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: great stone and when she looked round she saw that
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: summer was over and autumn very far advanced she had
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: known nothing of this in the beautiful garden where the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: sun shone and the flowers grew all the year round Oh,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: how I've wasted my time, said little Gerda. It is autumn.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I must rest no longer. And she rose up to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: go on. But her feet were wounded and sore, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: everything around her looked so cold and bleak. The long
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: willow leaves were quite yellow. The dewdrops fell like water.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Leaf after leaf dropped from the trees. The sloughs were
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: alone still bore fruit, but the sloughs were sour, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: set the teas on edge. Oh, how dark and weary
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: the whole world appeared!
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: The snow queen and other stories by hans christian andersen
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: translated by h b paul the snow queen fourth story
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the prince and princess gerda was obliged to rest again
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and just opposite the place where she sat she saw
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: a great crow come hopping across the snow toward her
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he stood looking at her for some time and then
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: he wagged his head and said caw caw good day
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: good day he pronounced the words as plainly as he
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: could because he meant to be kind to the little
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: girl and then he asked her where she was going
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: all alone in the wide world The word alone Gerda
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: understood very well, and knew how much it expressed. So
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: then she told the crow the whole story of her
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: life and adventures, and asked him if he had seen
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: little Kay. The crow nodded his head very gravely, and said,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Perhaps I have. It may be. No, do you think
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you have? cried little Gerda, and she kissed the crow
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and hugged him almost to death with joy.' Gently, gently,'
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: said the crow.' I believe I know. I think it
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: may be little Kay, but he has certainly forgotten you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: by this time for the princess.'' Does he live with
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the princess?' asked Gerda.' Yes, listen,' replied the crow.' But
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: it is so difficult to speak your language. If you
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: understand the crow's language, then I can explain it better.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Do you?' No, I have never learnt it, said Gerda,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but my grandmother understands it and used to speak it
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to me. I wish I had learnt it. It does
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: not matter, answered the crow. I will explain as well
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: as I can, although it will be very badly done.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And he told her what he had heard. In this
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: kingdom where we now are, said he, There lives a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: princess who is so wonderfully clever that she has read
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them too,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: although she is so clever. A short time ago, as
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: she was sitting on her throne, which people say is
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: not such an agreeable seat as is often supposed, she
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: began to sing a song which commences in these words.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Why should I not be married? Why not indeed? said she,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and so she determined to marry if she could find
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a husband who knew what to say when he was
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: spoken to, and not one who could only look grand,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: for that was so tiresome. Then she assembled all her
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: court ladies together at the beat of the drum, and
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: when they heard of her intentions they were very much pleased.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: We are so glad to hear it, said they. We
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: were talking about it ourselves the other day. You may
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: believe that every word I tell you is true. said
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the crow for i have a tame sweetheart who goes
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: freely about the palace and she told me all this
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: of course his sweetheart was a crow for birds of
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a feather flock together and one crow always chooses another
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: crow' Newspapers were published immediately, with a border of hots
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and the initials of the princess among them.' They gave
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: notice that every young man who was handsome was free
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: to visit the castle and speak with the princess,' and
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: those who could reply loud enough to be heard when
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: spoken to were to make themselves quite at home at
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the palace.' But the one who spoke best would be
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: chosen as a husband for the princess.' Yes, yes, you
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: may believe me, it is all as true as I
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: sit here,' said the crow.' The people came in crowds.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: There was a great deal of crushing and running about,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: but no one succeeded either on the first or second day.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: they could all speak very well while they were outside
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in the streets but when they entered the palace gates
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and saw the guards in silver uniforms and the footmen
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in their golden livery on the staircase and the great
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: halls lighted up they became quite confused and when they
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: stood before the throne on which the princess sat they
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: could do nothing but repeat the last words she had
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: said and she had no particular wish to hear her
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: own words ever again it was just as if they
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: had all taken something to make them sleepy while they
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: were in the palace for they did not recover themselves
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: nor speak till they got back again into the street
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: there was quite a long line of them reaching from
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the town gate to the palace i went myself to
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: see them said the crow they were hungry and thirsty
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: for in the palace they did not even get a
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: glass of water some of the wisest had taken a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: few slices of bread and butter with them but they
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: did not share it with their neighbours they thought if
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: they went in to the princess looking hungry there would
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: be a better chance for themselves but kay tell me
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: about little kay said gerda was he amongst the crowd
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Stop a bit. We are just coming to him. It
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: was on the third day. There came marching cheerfully along
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to the palace a little personage without horses or carriage,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: his eyes sparkling like yours. He had beautiful long hair,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: but his clothes were very poor. That was Kay, said
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Gerda joyfully. Oh, then I have found him, said she,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and she clapped her hands. He had a little knapsack
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: on his back. added the crow. No, it must have
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: been a sledge, said Gerda, for he went away with it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: It may have been so, said the crow. I did
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: not look at it very closely, but I know from
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: my tame sweetheart that he passed through the palace gates,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: saw the guards in their silver uniform, and the servants
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: in their liveries of gold on the stairs, but he
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: was not in the least embarrassed. It must be very
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: tiresome to stand on the stairs, he said. I prefer
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to go in. The rooms were blazing with light. Counselors
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and ambassadors walked about with bare feet, carrying golden vessels.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It was enough to make anyone feel serious. His boots
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: creaked loudly as he walked, and yet he was not
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: at all uneasy.' It must be Kay,' said Gerda.' I
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: know he had no boots on. I have heard them
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: creak in Grandmother's room.' they really did creak said the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: crow yet he went boldly up to the princess herself
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: who was sitting on a pearl as large as a
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: spinning-wheel and all the ladies of the court were present
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: with their maids and all the cavaliers with their servants
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and each of the maids had another maid to wait
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: upon her and the cavaliers servants had their own servants
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: as well as a page each they all stood in
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: circles round the princess and the nearer they stood to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the door the prouder they looked the servants pages who
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: always wore slippers could hardly be looked at they held
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: themselves up so proudly by the door it must be
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: quite awful said little gerda but did gay win the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: princess if i had not been a crow said he
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: i would have married her myself though i am engaged
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: he spoke just as well as i do when i
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: speak the crow's language so i heard from my tame
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: sweetheart He was quite free and agreeable, and said he
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: had not come to woo the princess, but to hear
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: her wisdom, and he was as pleased with her as
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: she was with him.' Oh, certainly that was Kay,' said Gerda.'
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: He was so clever he could work mental arithmetic and fractions. Oh,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: will you take me to the palace?'' It is very
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: easy to ask that,' replied the crow,' but how are
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we to manage it?' However, I will speak about it
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to my tame sweetheart, and ask her advice, for I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: must tell you it will be very difficult to gain
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: permission for a little girl like you to enter the palace.'' Oh, yes,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: but I shall gain permission easily,' said Gerda,' for when
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Kay hears that I am here, he will come out
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and fetch me in immediately.'' Wait for me here, by
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the palings,' said the crow, wagging his head as he
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: flew away.' It was late in the evening before the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: crow returned.' Caw! Caw!' he said.' She sends you greeting,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and here is a little roll which she took from
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the kitchen for you. There is plenty of bread there,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and she thinks you must be hungry. It is not
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: possible for you to enter the palace by the front entrance.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: The guards in silver uniform and the servants in gold
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: livery would not allow it.' But do not cry. We
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: will manage to get you in. My sweetheart knows a
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: little back entrance that leads to the sleeping apartments, and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: she knows where to find the key. Then they went
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: into the garden through the great avenue, where the leaves
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: were falling one after another, and they could see the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: light in the palace being put out in the same manner.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: And the crow led little Gerda to the back door,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: which stood ajar. Oh, how little Gerda's heart beat with
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: anxiety and longing! it was just as if she were
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: going to do something wrong and yet she only wanted
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to know where little kay was it must be he
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: she thought with those clear eyes and that long hair
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: she could fancy she saw him smiling at her as
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: he used to at home when they sat among the
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: roses he would certainly be glad to see her and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: to hear what a long distance she had come for
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: his sake and to know how sorry they had been
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: at home because he did not come back Oh, what?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: joy and yet fear she felt! They were now on
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the stairs, and in a small closet at the top
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: a lamp was burning. In the middle of the floor
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: stood the tame crow, turning her head from side to side,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and gazing at Gerda, who curtsied as her grandmother had
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: taught her to do.' Trotts has spoken so very highly
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: of you, my little lady,' said the tame crow.' Your
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: life history, Vita, as it may be called, is very touching.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: If you will take the lamp, I will walk before you.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: We will go straight along this way. Then we shall
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: meet no one.'' It seems to me as if somebody
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: were behind us,' said gerda as something rushed by her
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: like a shadow on the wall and then horses with
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: flying manes and thin legs hunters ladies and gentlemen on
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: horseback glided by her like shadows on the wall they
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: are only dreams said the crow they are coming to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: fetch the thoughts of the great people out hunting all
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the better for we shall be able to look at
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: them in their beds more safely i hope that when
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you rise to honour and favour you will show a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: grateful heart you may be quite sure of that said
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the girl from the forest They now came into the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: first hall, the walls of which were hung with rose-colored satin,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: embroidered with artificial flowers. Here the dreams again flitted by them,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: but so quickly that Gerda could not distinguish the royal persons.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Each hall appeared more splendid than the last. It was
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: enough to bewilder anyone. At length they reached a bedroom.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: The ceiling was like a great palm tree. with glass
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: leaves of the most costly crystal, and over the centre
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: of the floor two beds, each resembling a lily, hung
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: from a stem of gold. One, in which the princess lay,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: was white, the other was red, and in this Gerda
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: had to seek for little Kay. She pushed one of
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the red leaves aside and saw a little brown neck. Oh,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: that must be Kay. She called his name out quite
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: loud and held the lamp over him. The dreams rushed
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: back into the room on horseback. He woke and turned
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: his head round. It was not little Kay. The prince
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: was only like him in the neck, still he was
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: young and pretty. Then the princess peeped out of her
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: white lily bed and asked what was the matter. Then
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: little Gerda wept and told her story and all that
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the crows had done to help her.' You poor child,'
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: said the prince and princess, then they praised the crows
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: and said they were not angry for what they had
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: done but that it must not happen again and this
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: time they should be rewarded would you like to have
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: your freedom asked the princess or would you prefer to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: be raised to the position of court crows with all
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: that is left in the kitchen for yourselves Then both
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the crows bowed and begged to have a fixed appointment,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: for they thought of their old age and said it
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: would be so comfortable to feel that they had provision
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: for their old days, as they called it. And then
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the prince got out of his bed and gave it
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: up to Gerda. He could do no more, and she
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: lay down. She folded her little hands and thought, How
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: good everyone is to me, men and animals too. Then
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: she closed her eyes and fell into a sweet sleep.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: All the dreams came flying back again to her, and
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: they looked like angels, and one of them drew a
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: little sledge on which sat Kay and nodded to her.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: But all this was only a dream, and vanished as
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: soon as she awoke. The following day she was dressed
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: from head to foot in silk and velvet, and they
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: invited her to stay at the palace for a few
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: days and enjoy herself. but she only begged for a
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: pair of boots and a little carriage and a horse
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: to draw it so that she might go into the
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: wide world to seek for kay and she obtained not
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: only boots but also a muff and she was neatly
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: dressed and when she was ready to go there at
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the door she found a coach made of pure gold
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: with the coat of arms of the prince and princess
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: shining upon it like a star and the coachmen footmen
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and outriders all wearing golden crowns on their heads the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: prince and princess themselves helped her into the coach and
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: wished her success the forest crow who was now married
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: accompanied her for the first three miles he sat by
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: gerda's side as he could not bear riding backwards the
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: tame crow stood in the doorway flapping her wings she
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: could not go with them because she had been suffering
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: from headache ever since the new appointment no doubt from
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: eating too much the coach was well stored with sweet
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: cakes and under the seat were fruit and gingerbread nuts
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: farewell farewell cried the prince and princess and little gerda
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: wept and the crow wept and then after a few
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: miles the crow also said farewell and this was the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: saddest parting However, he flew to a tree and stood
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: flapping his black wings as long as he could see
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the coach, which glittered in the bright sunshine.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Recording by Ellie The Snow Queen and Other Stories by
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Hans Christian Andersen Translated by H.P. Paul The Snow Queen
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Fifth Story Little Robber Girl the coach drove on through
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: a thick forest where it lighted up the way like
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: a torch and dazzled the eyes of some robbers who
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: could not let it pass them unmolested it is gold
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: it is gold cried they rushing forward and seizing the
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: horses then they struck their little jockeys the coachman and
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: the footman dead and pulled little gerda out of the
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: carriage she is fat and pretty and has been fed
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: with the kernels of nuts said the old robber woman
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: who had a long beard and eyebrows that hung over
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: her eyes she's as good as a little lamp how
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: nice she will taste and as she said this she
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: drew forth a shining knife that glittered horribly oh screamed
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: the old woman at the same moment for her own
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: daughter had held her back and bitten her in the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: ear she was a wild and naughty girl and her
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: mother called her an ugly thing and had no time
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: to kill gerda she shall play with me said the
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: little robber girl she shall give me her muff and
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: her pretty dress and sleep with me in my bed
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: and then she bit her mother again and made her
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: spring in the air and jump about and all the
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: robbers laughed and said see how she is dancing with
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: her young cub i will ride in the coach said
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: the little robber girl and she would have her own
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: way for she was self-willed and obstinate she and gerda
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: seated themselves in the coach and drove away over stumps
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: and stones into the depths of the forest the little
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: robber girl was about the same size as gerda but
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: stronger she had broad shoulders and a darker skin Her
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: eyes were quite black and she had a mournful look.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: She clasped little Gerda around the waist and said, They
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: shall not kill you as long as you don't make
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: us vexed with you. I suppose you are a princess? No,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: said Gerda, and then she told all her history and
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: how fond she was of little Kay. The robber girl
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: looked earnestly at her, nodded her head slightly and said,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: They shan't kill you, even if I do get angry
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: with you, for I will do it myself. Then she
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: wiped Gerda's eyes and stuck her own hands in the
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: beautiful muff which was so soft and warm the coach
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: stopped in the courtyard of a robber's castle the walls
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: of which were cracked from top to bottom ravens and
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: crows flew in and out of the holes and crevices
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: while great bulldogs either of which looked as if it
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: could swallow a man were jumping about but they were
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: not allowed to bark in a large smoky hall a
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: bright fire was burning on the stone floor there was
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: no chimney so the smoke went up to the ceiling
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: and found a way out for itself soup was boiling
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: in a large cold room and hares and rabbits were
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: roasting on the spit you shall sleep with me and
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: all my little animals to-night said the robber girl after
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: they had had something to eat and drink so she
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: took gerda to a corner of the hall where some
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: straw and carpets were laid down above them on lathes
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: and perches were more than a hundred pigeons who all
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: seemed to be asleep although they moved slightly when the
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: two girls came near them these all belong to me
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: said the robber girl and she seized the nearest to
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: her and held it by the feet and shook it
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: till it flapped its wings kiss it cried she flapping
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: it in gerda's face there sat the wood-pigeons continued she
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: pointing to a number of less than a cage which
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: had been fixed into the walls near one of the
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: openings both rascals would fly away directly if they were
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: not closely locked up and here is my old sweetheart
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: ba and she dragged out the reindeer by the horn
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: he wore a bright copper ring around his neck and
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: was tied up we are obliged to hold him tight
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: too or else he would run away from us also
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: i tickle his neck every evening with my sharp knife
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: which frightens him very much and then the robber girl
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: drew a long knife from a chink in the wall
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: and let it slide gently over the reindeer's neck the
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: poor animal began to kick and the little robber girl
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: laughed and pulled goddard down into bed with her Will
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: you have that knife with you while you are asleep?
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: asked Gerda, looking at her in great fright. I always
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: sleep with the knife by me, said the robber girl.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: No one knows what may happen. But now tell me
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: again about little Kay and why you went out into
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: the world. Then Gerda repeated her story over again, while
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: there were pigeons in the cage over her coat, and
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: the other pigeons slept. The little robber girl put one
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: arm across Gerda's neck and held the knife in the other,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: and was soon fast asleep and snoring. but gerda could
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: not close her eyes at all she knew not whether
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: she was to live or die the robbers set around
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: the fire singing and drinking when the old woman stumbled
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: about it was a terrible sight for a little girl
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: to witness then the wood-pigeon said coo coo we have
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: seen little kay a white foal carried his sledge and
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: he sat in the carriage of the snow queen which
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: drove through the wood while we were lying in our
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: nest she blew upon us and all the young ones
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: died excepting two of us What are you saying up there?
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: cried Gerda. Where was the Snow Queen going? Do you
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: know anything about it? She was most likely travelling to Lapland,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: where there is always ice and snow, asked the reindeer
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: that is fastened up there with the rope. Yes, there
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: is always snow and ice, said the reindeer, and it
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: is a glorious place. You can leap and run about
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: freely on the sparkling ice plains. The Snow Queen has
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: a summer tent there, but her strong castle is at
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the North Pole on an island called Spitsbergen. oh kay
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: little kay said the girl lie still said the robber
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: girl or i shall run my knife into your body
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: in the morning gerda told her all that the wood
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: pigeons had said and the little robber girl looked quite
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: serious and nodded her head and said that is old
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: talk that is old talk do you know where lapland
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: is she asked the reindeer who should know better than
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: i do said the animal while his eyes sparkled i
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: was born and brought up there and used to run
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: about the snow-covered plains now listen said the robber girl
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: all our men are gone away only mother is here
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: and here she will stay but at noon she always
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: drinks out of a great bottle and afterwards sleeps for
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: a little while and then i'll do something for you
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: then she jumped out of bed and clasped her mother
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: round the neck and pulled her by the beard crying
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: my own little nanny goat good morning then her mother
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: flipped her nose till it was quite red yet she
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: did it all for love when the mother had drunk
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: out of the bottle and was gone to sleep the
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: little robber maiden went to the reindeer and said i
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: should like very much to tickle your neck a few
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: times more with my knife for it makes you look
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: so funny but never mind i will untie your cord
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: and set you free so that you may run away
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: to lapland but you must make good use of your
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: legs and carry this little maiden to the castle of
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: the snow queen where her playfellow is you have heard
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: what she told me for she spoke out loud enough
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: and you were listening then the reindeer jumped for joy
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: and the little robber girl lifted god on his back
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: and had to force out to tie her on and
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: even give her her own little cushion to sit on
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: here are your fur boots for you she said for
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: it will be very cold but i must keep them
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: off it is so pretty however you shall not be
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: frozen for the want of it here are my mother's
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: large warm mittens they will reach up to your elbows
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: let me put them on there now your hands look
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: just like my mother's but gerda wept for joy i
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: don't like to see you fret said the little robber
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: girl you ought to look quite happy now and here
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: are two loaves and a hem so that you need
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: not starve these were fastened on the reindeer and then
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: the little robber maiden opened the door coaxed in all
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: the great dogs and then cut the string with which
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: the reindeer was fastened with her sharp knife and said
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: now run but mind you take good care of the
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: little girl and then gerda stretched out her hand with
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: the great mitten on it towards the little robber girl
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: and said farewell and away flew the reindeer over stumps
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: and stones through the great forest over marshes and plains
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: as quickly as he could the wolves howled and the
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: ravens screamed while up in the sky quivered red lights
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: like flames of fire they are my old modern lights
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: said the reindeer see how they flash and they ran
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: on day and night still faster and faster but the
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: loaves and the ham were all eaten by the time they.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Reached The Snow Queen and Other Stories by Hans Christian
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Andersen Translated by H. B. Ball The Snow Queen Sixth
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Story The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman They stopped
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: at a little hut. It was very mean-looking. The roof
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: sloped nearly down to the ground, and the door was
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: so low that the family had to creep in on
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: their hands and knees when they went in and out.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: There was no one at home but an old Lapland woman,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: who was cooking fish by the light of a train-oil lamp.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: The reindeer told her all about Gerda's story, after having
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: first told his own, which seemed to him the most important,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: but Gerda was so pinched with the cold that she
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: could not speak.' Oh, you poor things!' said the Lapland woman.'
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: You have a long way to go yet!' You must
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: travel more than a hundred miles farther to Finland. The
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Snow Queen lives there now, and she burns Bengal lights
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: every evening. I will write a few words on a
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: dried stockfish, for I have no paper, and you can
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: take it from me to the Finland woman who lives there.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: She can give you better information than I can. So
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: when Gerda was warmed and had taken something to eat
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and drink, the woman wrote a few words on the
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: dried fish and told Gerda to take great care of it.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Then she tied her again on the reindeer, and he
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: set off at full speed. Flash, flash went the beautiful
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: blue northern lights in the air the whole night long,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and at length they reached Finland and knocked at the
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: chimney of the Finland woman's hut, for it had no
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: door above the ground. They crept in, but it was
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: so terribly hot inside that that woman wore scarcely any clothes.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: She was small and very dirty-looking. She loosened little Gerda's
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: dress and took off the fur boots and the mittens,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: or Gerda would have been unable to bear the heat.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: And then she placed a piece of ice on the
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: reindeer's head and read what was written on the dried fish.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: After she had read it three times, she knew it
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: by heart, so she popped the fish into the soup-sauce pan,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: as she knew it was good to eat, and she
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: never wasted anything. The reindeer told his own story first,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: and then little Gerda's, and the Finlander twinkled with her
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: clever eyes, but she said nothing. You are so clever,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: said the reindeer. I know you can tie all the
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: winds of the world with a piece of twine. If
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: a sailor unties one knot, he has a fair wind.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: When he unties a second, it blows hard. But if
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: the third and fourth are loosened, then comes a storm,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: which will root up whole forests. Cannot you give this
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: little maiden something which will make her as strong as
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: twelve men to overcome the Snow Queen? The power of
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: twelve men, said the Finland woman, that would be of
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: very little use. But she went to a shelf and
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: took down and unrolled a large skin on which were
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: inscribed wonderful characters, and she read till the perspiration ran
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: down from her forehead. But the reindeer begged so hard
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: for little Gerda, and Gerda looked at the Finland woman
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: with such beseeching, tearful eyes that her own eyes began
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: to twinkle again. So she drew the reindeer into a
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: corner and whispered to him while she laid a fresh
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: piece of ice on his head. Little K is really
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: with the Snow Queen, but he finds everything there so
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: much to his taste and his liking that he believes
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: it is the finest place in the world. But this
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: is because he has a piece of broken glass in
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: his heart and a little piece of glass in his eye.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: these must be taken out or he will never be
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: a human being again and the snow queen will retain
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: her power over him but can you not give little
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: gerda something to help her to conquer this power i
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: can give her no greater power than she has already
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: said the woman Don't you see how strong that is?
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and
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  Speaker 1: how well she has got through the world, barefooted as
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: she is? She cannot receive any power from me greater
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: than she now has, which consists in her own purity
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: to the Snow Queen and remove the glass fragments from
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: little Kay, we can do nothing to help her. Two
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: miles from here the Snow Queen's garden begins. You can
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: carry the little girl so far and set her down
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: by the large bush which stands in the snow covered
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: with red berries. Do not stay gossiping, but come back
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  Speaker 1: here as quickly as you can. Then the Finland woman
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: lifted little Gerda upon the reindeer and he ran away
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: with her as quickly as he could. Oh, I have
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: forgotten my boots and my mittens, cried little Gerda as
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: soon as she felt the cutting cold, but the reindeer
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: dared not stop, so he ran on till he reached
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: the bush with the red berries. Here he set Gerda down,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: and he kissed her, and the great bright tears trickled
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: over the animal's cheeks. Then he left her and ran
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: back as fast as he could. There stood poor Gerda,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: without shoes, without gloves, in the midst of cold, dreary,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: ice-bound Finland. She ran forwards as quickly as she could,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: when a whole regiment of snowflakes came round her. They
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  Speaker 1: did not, however, fall from the sky, which was quite
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: clear and glittering with the northern lights. The snowflakes ran
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  Speaker 1: along the ground, and the nearer they came to her,
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  Speaker 1: the larger they appeared. Gerda remembered how large and beautiful
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: they looked through the burning glass. But these were really
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: larger and much more terrible, for they were alive and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: were the guards of the Snow Queen, and had the
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: strangest shapes. Some were like great porcupines, others like twisted
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: serpents with their heads stretching out, and some few were
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: like little fat bears with their hair bristled. But all
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: were dazzlingly white, and all were living snowflakes. then little
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: gerda repeated the lord's prayer and the cold was so
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: great that she could see her own breath come out
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  Speaker 1: of her mouth like steam as she uttered the words
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: the steam appeared to increase as she continued her prayer
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: till it took the shape of little angels who grew
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  Speaker 1: larger the moment they touched the earth they all wore
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  Speaker 1: helmets on their heads and carried spears and shields Their
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: number continued to increase more and more, and by the
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: time Gerda had finished her prayers, a whole legion stood
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: round her. They thrust their spears into the terrible snowflakes
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: so that they shivered into a hundred pieces, and little
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Gerda could go forward with courage and safety. The angel
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: stroked her hands and feet so that she felt the
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: cold less, and she hastened on to the Snow Queen's castle.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: But now we must see what Kay is doing. In truth,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: he thought not of little Gerda, and never supposed she
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: could be standing in the front of the palace.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Recording by Ellie The Snow Queen and Other Stories by
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Hans Christian Andersen Translated by H. B. Paul The Snow
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  Speaker 2: Queen Seventh Story Of the Palace of the Snow Queen
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  Speaker 2: and What Happened There at Last The walls of the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: palace were formed of drifted snow, and the windows and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: doors of the cutting winds, there were more than a
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: hundred rooms in it all as if they had been
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: formed with snow blown together the largest of them extended
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: for several miles they were all lighted up by the
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: vivid light of the auror and they were so large
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: and empty so icy cold and glittering there were no
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: amusements here not even a little beer spoil when the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: storm might have been the music and the bears could
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: have danced on their hind legs and shown their good
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: manners There were no pleasant games of snapdragon or touch,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: or even a gossip over the tea-table for the young
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: lady foxes. Empty, vast, and cold were the halls of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: the Snow Queen. The flickering flame of the northern lights
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: in the heavens, from every part of the castle. In
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: the midst of this empty, endless hall of snow was
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: a frozen lake, broken on its surface into a thousand forms.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: each piece resembled an other from being in itself perfect
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: as a work of art and in the centre of
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: this lake sat the snow queen when she was at
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: home she called the lake the mirror of reason and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: said it was the best and indeed the only one
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: in the world little kay was quite blue with cold
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: indeed almost black but he did not feel it for
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: the snow queen had kissed away the icy shiverings and
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: his heart was already a lump of ice he dragged
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: some sharp flat pieces of ice to and fro and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: placed them together in all kinds of positions as if
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: he wished to make something out of them just as
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: we try to form various figures with little tablets of
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: wood which we call a chinese puzzle k s fingers
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: were very artistic it was the icy game of reason
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: at which he played and in his eyes the figures
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: were very remarkable and of the highest importance this opinion
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: was only to the piece of glass still sticking in
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: his eye he composed many complete figures forming different words
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: but there was one word he could never manage to
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: form although he wished it very much it was the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: word eternity the snow queen had said to him when
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: you can find out this you shall be your own
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: master and i will give you the whole world and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: a new pair of skates but he could not accomplish
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: it now i must hasten away to warmer countries said
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: the snow queen i will go and look into the
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: black craters of the tops of the burning mountains and
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: vesuvius as they are called i shall make them look
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: white which will be good for them and for their
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: laments and grapes and away flew the snow-queen weaving little
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: cake white alone in the great hall which was many
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: miles in length so he sat and looked at his
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: pieces of ice and was thinking so deeply and sat
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: so still that any one might have supposed he was
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: frozen Just at this moment it happened that little Gerda
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: came through the great door of the castle. Cutting winds
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: were raging around her, but she offered up a prayer,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: and the wind sank down as if they were going
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: to sleep, and she went until she came to the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: large empty hall and caught sight of Kay. She knew
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: him directly. She flew to him and threw her arms
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: around his neck and held him fast while she exclaimed, Kay,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: dear little Kay, I've found you at last! But he
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: sat quite still, stiff and cold. then little gerda wept
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: hot tears which fell on his breast and penetrated into
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: his heart and saw in the lamp of ice and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: washed away the little pieces of glass which had stuck
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: there and he looked at her and she sang roses
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: bloom and cease to be but we shall the christ
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: shall see then kay burst into tears and he wept
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: so that the splinter of glass swam out of his
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: eye then he recognized gerda and said joyfully gerda dear
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: little gerda where have you been all this time and
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: where have i been and they looked all around him
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: and said, How cold it is, and how very large
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: and empty it looks! And they clung to Gerda, and
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: she laughed and wept for joy. It was so pleasing
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: to see them that the pieces of ice even danced about,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: and when they were tired and went to lie down,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: they formed themselves into the letters of the word which
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: the Snow Queen had said he must find out before
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: he could be his own master and have the whole
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: world in a pair of new skates. Then Gerda kissed
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: his cheeks, and they became blooming. and she kissed his eyes,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: and they shone like her own. She kissed his hands
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: and feet, and then he became quite healthy and cheerful.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: The snow queen might come home now when she pleased,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: for there stood his certainty of freedom in the world
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: she wanted, written in shining letters of ice. Then they
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: took each other by the hand and went forth from
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: the great palace of ice. They spoke of the grandmother
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: and of the roses on the roof, and as they
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: went on the winds were at rest and the sun
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: burst forth. when they arrived at the bush with the
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: red berries there stood the reindeer waiting for them and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: he brought another young reindeer with him whose udders were
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: full and the children drank her warm milk and kissed
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: her on the mouth then they carried kay and gerda
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: first to the finland woman where they warmed themselves sorrowfully
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: in her hot room and she gave them directions about
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: their home journey next they went to the lapland woman
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: who had made some new clothes for them and put
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: their sleighs in order Both the reindeer ran by their
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: side and followed them as far as the boundaries of
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: the country, where the first green leaves were budding. Here
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: they took leave of the two reindeer and the lepland woman,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: and all said farewell. Then the birds began to twitter,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: and the forest, too, was full of young green leaves,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: and out of it came a beautiful horse, which Gerda remembered,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: for it was one which had drawn the golden coach.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: A young girl was riding upon it. with a shining
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: red cap on her head and pistols in her belt.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: It was the little robber maiden who had got tired
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: of staying at home. She was going first to the north,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: and if that didn't suit her, she meant to try
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: some other part of the world. She knew Gerda directly,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: and Gerda remembered her. It was a joyful meeting. You're
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: a fine fellow to go getting about in this way,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: she said to little Kay. I should like to know
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: whether you deserve that anyone should go to the end
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: of the world to find you. But Gerda petted her cheeks.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: and asked after the prince and princess they are gone
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: to foreign countries said the robber girl and the crow
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: asked gerda oh the crow is dead she replied his
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: tame sweetheart is now a widow and wears a bit
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: of black worsted around her leg she mourns very pitifully
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: but it is all stuff but now tell me how
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: you managed to get him back then gerda and kate
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: told her all about it snip-snap snare it is all
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: right at last said the robber girl then she took
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: both their hands and promised if she ever should pass
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: through the town she would call and pay them a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: visit and then she rode away into the wide world
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: but gerda and kay went hand in hand towards home
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: and as they advanced spring appeared more lovely with its
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: beautiful flowers very soon they recognized the large town where
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: they lived and the tall steeples of the churches in
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: which the sweet bells were ringing in merry peal as
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: they entered it and found their way to their grandmother's
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: door they went upstairs into the little room where all
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: looked just as it used to do the old clock
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: was going tick-tick and the hands pointing to the time
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: of the day but as they passed through the door
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: into the room they perceived that they were both grown
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: up and become a man and woman the roses out
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: on the roof were in full bloom and peeped in
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: at the window and there stood the little chairs on
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: which they had sat when children, and Gerda and Kay
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: seated themselves each on their own chair, and held each
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: other by the hand, while the cold, empty grandeur of
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: the Snow Queen's palace vanished from their memories like a
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: painful dream. The grandmother sat in God's bright sunshine and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: read aloud from the Bible, Except ye become as little children,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: And Kay and Gerda looked into each other's eyes, and
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: all at once understood the words of the old song,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: roses blooming cease to be but we shall the christ
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: child see and they both sat there grown up their
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: children at heart and it was summer warm beautiful summer.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: The snow queen and other stories by hans christian anderson
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: translated by h b ball the little mermaid part one
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: far out in the ocean where the water is as
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: blue as the prettiest corn-flower and as clear as crystal
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: it is very very deep so deep indeed that no
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: cable could fathom it many church steeples piled one upon
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: another would not reach from the ground beneath to the
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: surface of the water above there dwell the sea-king and
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: his subjects we must not imagine that there is nothing
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: no indeed the most singular flowers and plants grow there
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: the leaves and stems of which are so pliant that
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: the slightest agitation of the water causes them to stir
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: as if they had life fishes both large and small
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: glide between the branches as birds fly among the trees
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: hereupon land In the deepest spot of all stands the
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: castle of the Sea King. Its walls are built of coral,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: and the long gothic windows are of the clearest amber.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: The roof is formed of shells that open and close
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: as the water flows over them. Their appearance is very beautiful,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: for in each lies a glittering pearl which would be
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: fit for the diadem of a queen. The sea-king had
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: been a widower for many years, and his aged mother
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: kept house for him. She was a very wise woman,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: and exceedingly proud of her high birth. On that account
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: she wore twelve oysters on her tail, while others, also
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: of high rank, were only allowed to wear six. She was, however,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: deserving of very great praise, especially for her care of
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: the little sea-princesses, her granddaughters. They were six beautiful children.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: but the youngest was the prettiest of them all her
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: skin was as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf and
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: her eyes as blue as the deepest sea but like
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: all the others she had no feet and her body
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: ended in a fish's tail All day long they played
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: in the great halls of the castle, or among the
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: living flowers that grew out of the walls. The large
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: amber windows were open, and the fish swam in, just
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: as the swallows fly into our houses when we open
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: the window, except that the fishes swam up to the princesses,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: ate out of their hands, and allowed themselves to be stroked.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Outside the castle there was a beautiful garden in which
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: grew bright red and dark blue flowers and blossoms like
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: flames of fire. The fruit glittered like gold and the
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: leaves and stems waved to and fro continually. The earth
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: itself was the finest sand but blue as a flame
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: of burning sulphur. Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: as if it were surrounded by the air from above,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: through which the blue sky shone, instead of the dark
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: depths of the sea. In calm weather the sun could
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: be seen, looking like a purple flower, with the light
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: streaming from the calyx. Each of the young princesses had
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: a little plot of ground in the garden, where she
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: might dig and plant as she pleased. One arranged her
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: flower-bed in the form of a whale. Another thought it
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: better to make hers like the figure of a little mermaid,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: but that of the youngest was round like the sun,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: and contained flowers as red as his rays at sunset.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: She was a strange child, quiet and thoughtful, and while
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: her sisters would be delighted with the wonderful things which
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: they obtained from the wrecks of vessels, she cared for
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: nothing but her pretty red flowers like the sun, excepting
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: a beautiful marble statue. It was the representation of a
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: handsome boy carved out of pure white stone which had
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: fallen to the bottom of the sea from a wreck.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: She planted by the statue a rose-coloured weeping willow. It
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: grew splendidly and very soon hung its fresh branches over
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: the statue almost down to the blue sands. The statue
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: had a violet tint and waved to and fro like
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: the branches. It seemed as if the crown of the
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: tree and the root were at play. and trying to
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: kiss each other. Nothing gave her so much pleasure as
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: to hear about the world above the sea. She made
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  Speaker 1: her old grandmother tell her all she knew of the
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  Speaker 1: ships and of the towns, the people and the animals.
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  Speaker 1: To her it seemed most wonderful and beautiful to hear
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  Speaker 1: that the flowers of the land should have fragrance and
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  Speaker 1: not those below the sea, that the trees of the
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: forest should be green and that the fishes among the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: trees could sing so sweetly that it was quite a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: pleasure to hear them. her grandmother called the little birds
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  Speaker 1: fishes or she would not have understood her for she
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  Speaker 1: had never seen birds when you have reached your fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: year said the grandmother you will have permission to rise
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  Speaker 1: up out of the sea to sit on the rocks
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  Speaker 1: in the moonlight while the great ships are sailing by
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  Speaker 1: and then you will see both forests and towns In
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: the following year one of the sisters would be fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: but as each was a year younger than the other,
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  Speaker 1: the youngest would have to wait five years before her
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  Speaker 1: turn came to rise up from the bottom of the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: ocean and see the earth as we do. However, each
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: promised to tell the others what she saw on her
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  Speaker 1: first visit and what she thought the most beautiful, for
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: their grandmother could not tell them enough. There were so
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: many things on which they wanted information, but none of
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: them longed so much for her turn to come as
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: the youngest, she who had the longest time to wait,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: and who was so quiet and thoughtful. Many nights she
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: stood by the open window, looking up through the dark
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: blue water, and watching the fish as they splashed about
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: with their fins and tails. She could see the moon
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: and stars shining faintly, but through the water they looked
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: larger than they do to our eyes. When something like
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: a black cloud passed between her and them, she knew
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: that it was either a whale swimming over her head,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: or a ship full of human beings, who never imagined
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: that a pretty little mermaid was standing beneath them, holding
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: out her white hands towards the keel of their ship.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: As soon as the eldest was fifteen, she was allowed
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: to rise to the surface of the ocean. When she
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: came back, she had hundreds of things to talk about,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: but the most beautiful, she said, was to lie in
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: the moonlight on a sandbank in the quiet sea near
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: the coast and to gaze on a large town nearby
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  Speaker 1: where the lights were twinkling like hundreds of stars, to
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: listen to the sounds of the music, the noise of carriages,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: and the voices of human beings, and then to hear
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: the merry bells peal out from the church steeples. and
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: because she could not go near to all those wonderful things,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: she longed for them more than ever. Oh, did not
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: the youngest sister listen eagerly to all these descriptions? And afterwards,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: when she stood at the open window, looking up through
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: the dark blue water, she thought of the great city,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: with all its buzzle and noise, and even fancied she
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: could hear the sound of the church bells down in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: the depths of the sea. In another year the second
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: sister received permission to rise to the surface of the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: water and to swim about where she pleased. She rose
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: just as the sun was setting, and this, she said,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: was the most beautiful sight of all. The whole sky
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: looked like gold, while violet and rose-colored clouds, which she
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: could not describe, floated over her. And, still more rapidly
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: than the clouds, flew a large flock of wild swans
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  Speaker 1: towards the setting sun, looking like a long white veil
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: across the sea. She also swam towards the sun, but
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: it sunk into the waves and the rosy tints faded
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: from the clouds and from the sea. The third sister's
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: turn followed. She was the boldest of them all and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: she swam up a broad river that emptied itself into
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  Speaker 1: the sea. On the banks she saw green hills covered
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  Speaker 1: with beautiful vines. palaces and castles peeped out from amid
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  Speaker 1: the proud trees of the forest she heard the birds
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  Speaker 1: singing and the rays of the sun were so powerful
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  Speaker 1: that she was obliged often to dive down under the
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  Speaker 1: water to cool her burning face in a narrow creek
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  Speaker 1: she found a whole troop of little human children quite
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: naked and sporting about in the water and she wanted
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  Speaker 1: to play with them but they fled in a great
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: fright and then a little black animal came to the water.
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  Speaker 1: It was a dog, but she did not know that,
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  Speaker 1: for she had never before seen one. This animal barked
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  Speaker 1: at her so terribly that she became frightened and rushed
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  Speaker 1: back to the open sea. But she said she should
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: never forget the beautiful forest, the green hills, and the
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: pretty little children who could swim in the water, although
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: they had not fish's tails. The fourth sister was more timid.
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  Speaker 1: She remained in the midst of the sea, but she
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: said it was quite as beautiful there as nearer the land.
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  Speaker 1: She could see for so many miles around her, and
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: the sky above looked like a bell of glass. She
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: had seen the ships, but at such a great distance
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  Speaker 1: that they looked like seagulls. The dolphins sported in the waves,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: and the great whales spouted water from their nostrils till
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: it seemed as if a hundred fountains were playing in
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  Speaker 1: every direction. The fifth sister's birthday occurred in the winter,
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  Speaker 1: so when her turn came, she saw what the others
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  Speaker 1: had not seen the first time they went up. The
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: sea looked quite green, and large icebergs were floating about,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: each like a pearl, she said, but larger and loftier
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: than the churches built by men. They were of the
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: most singular shapes, and glittered like diamonds. She had seated
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: herself upon one of the largest and let the wind
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: play with her long hair, and she remarked that all
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: the ships sailed by rapidly and steered as far away
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  Speaker 1: as they could from the iceberg as if they were
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: afraid of it. Towards evening, as the sun went down,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: dark clouds covered the sky, the thunder rolled, and the
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: lightning flashed, and the red light glowed on the iceberg
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: as they rocked and tossed on the heaving sea. On
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: all the ships the sails were reefed with fear and trembling,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: while she sat calmly on the floating iceberg, watching the
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: blue lightning as it darted its forked flashes into the sea.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: When first the sisters had permission to rise to the surface,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: they were each delighted with the new and beautiful sights
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: they saw. But now, as grown-up girls, they could go
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: when they pleased, and they had become indifferent about it.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: They wished themselves back again in the water, and after
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: a month had passed, they said it was much more
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: beautiful down below and pleasanter to be at home. Yet often,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: in the evening hours, the five sisters would twine their
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: arms round each other and rise to the surface in
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: a row. They had more beautiful voices than any human
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: being could have, and before the approach of a storm
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: and when they expected it, a ship would be lost,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: they swam before the vessel and sang sweetly of the
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: delight to be found in the depths of the sea,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: and begging the sailors not to fear if they sank
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: to the bottom. But the sailors could not understand the song.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: They took it for the howling of the storm, and
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: these things were never to be beautiful for them, for
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: if the ship sank, the men were drowned, and their
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: dead bodies alone reached the palace of the sea-king.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: The Snow Queen and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: Translated by H.B. Paul The Little Mermaid Part 2 When
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  Speaker 2: the sisters rose arm in arm through the water in
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  Speaker 2: this way, the youngest sister would stand quite alone, looking
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: after them, ready to cry, only that mermaids have no tears,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: and therefore they suffer more. Oh, were I but fifteen
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  Speaker 2: years old, said she, I know that they shall love
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  Speaker 2: the world up there, and all the people who live
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: in it. at last she reached her fifteenth year well
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: now you are grown up said the old dowager her
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: grandmother so you must let me adorn you like your
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: other sisters and she placed a wreath of white lilies
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  Speaker 2: in her hair and every flower-leaf was half a pearl
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: then the old lady ordered eight great oysters to attach
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: themselves to the tail of the princess to show her
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  Speaker 2: high rank but to help me so said the little
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  Speaker 2: mermaid bride must suffer pain replied the old lady oh
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  Speaker 2: how clearly she would have shaken off all this grandeur
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  Speaker 2: and laid aside the heavy wreath the red flowers in
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: her own garden would have suited her much better but
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: she could not help herself so she said farewell and
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: rose as lightly as a bubble to the surface of
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: the water the sun had just set as she raised
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: her head above the waves but the clouds were tinted
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: with crimson and gold and through the glimmering twilight beamed
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: the evening star in all its beauty the sea was
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: calm and the air mild and fresh a large ship
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: with three masts lay becalmed on the water with only
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: one sail set for not the breeze stiffed and the
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: sailors sat idle on deck or amongst the rigging there
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: was music and song on board and as darkness came
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: on a hundred colored lanterns were lighted as if the
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: flags of all nations waved in the air the little
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: mermaid swam close to the cabin windows and now and
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: then as the waves lifted her up she could look
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: in through the clear glass window panes and see a
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: number of well-dressed people within Among them was a young prince,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: the most beautiful of all, with large black eyes. He
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: was sixteen years of age, and his birthday was being
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: kept with much rejoicing. The sailors were dancing on deck,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: but when the prince came out of the cabin, more
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: than a hundred rockets rose in the air, making it
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: as bright as day. The little mermaid was so startled
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: that she dived underwater, and when she again stretched out
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: her head, it appeared as if all the stars of
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: heaven were falling around her. She had never seen such
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: fireworks before. great sun spurted fire about splendid fireflies flew
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: into the blue air and everything was reflected in the
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: clear calm sea beneath the ship itself was so brightly
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: illuminated that all the people and even the smallest group
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: could be distinctly and plainly seen and how handsome the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: young prince looked as he pressed the hands of all
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: present and smiled at them while the music resounded through
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: the clear night air it was very late yet the
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: little mermaid could not take her eyes from the ship
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: or from the beautiful prince The colored lanterns had been extinguished,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: no more rockets rose in the air, and the cannon
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: had ceased firing. But the sea became restless, and the moaning,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: grumbling sound could be heard beneath the waves. Still the
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: little mermaid remained by the cabin window, rocking up and
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: down on the water, which enabled her to look in.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: After a while the sails were quickly unfurled, and the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: noble ship continued her passage. But soon the waves rose higher,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: heavy clouds darkened the sky, and lightning appeared in the distance.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: a dreadful storm was approaching once more the sails were
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: reefed and the great ship pursued her flying course over
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: the raging sea the waves rose mountains high as if
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: they would have overtopped the mast but the ship dived
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: like a swarm between them and then under the lashing
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: of the sea as it broke over the deck the
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: mainmast snapped asunder like a reed the ship lay over
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: on her side and the water rushed in the little
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: mermaid now perceived that the crew were in danger even
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: she herself was obliged to be careful to avoid the
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: beams and planks of the wreck which lay scattered on
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: the water at one moment it was so pitch dark
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: that she could not see a single object but a
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: flash of lightning revealed the whole scene she could see
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: every one who had been on board excepting the prince
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: when the ship parted she had seen him sink into
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: the deep waves and she was glad for she thought
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: he would now be with her and then she remembered
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: that human beings could not live in the water so
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: that when he got down to her father's palace he
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: would be quite dead but he must not die so
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: she swam about among the beams and planks which drew
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: to the surface of the sea forgetting that they could
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: crush her to pieces then she dived deeply under the
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: dark waters rising and falling with the waves till at
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: length she managed to reach the young prince who was
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: fast losing the power of swimming in that stormy sea
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: his limbs were failing him his beautiful eyes were closed
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: and he would have died had not the little mermaid
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: come to his assistance she held his head above the
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: water and let the waves drift them where they would
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: in the morning the storm had ceased but of the
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: ship not a single fragment could be seen the sun
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: rose up red and glowing from the water and its
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: beams brought back the hue of health to the prince's
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: cheeks but his eyes remained closed the mermaid kissed his
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: high smooth forehead and stroked back his wet hair he
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: seemed to her like the marble statue in her little
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: garden and she kissed him again and wished that he
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: might live presently they came in sight of land she
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: saw lofty blue mountains on which the white snow rested
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: as if a flock of swans were lying upon them
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: near the coast were beautiful green forests in close by
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: stood a large building whether a church or a convent
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: she could not tell orange and citron trees grew in
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: the garden and before the door stood lofty palms the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: sea here formed a little bay in which the water
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: was quite still but very deep so she swam with
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: the handsome prince to the beach which was covered with
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: fine white sand and there she laid him in the
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: warm sunshine taking care to raise his head higher than
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: his body then bells sounded and a large white building
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: and a number of young girls came into the garden
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: the little mermaid swam out farther from the shore and
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: placed herself between some high rocks that rose out of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: the water then she covered her head and neck with
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: the foam of the sea so that her little face
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: might not be seen and watched to see what would
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: become of the poor prince she did not wait long
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: before she saw a young girl approach the spot where
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: he lay she seemed frightened at first but only for
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: a moment then she fetched a number of people and
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: the mermaid saw that the prince came to life again
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: and smiled upon those who stood around him but to
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: her he sent no smile he knew not that she
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: had saved him this made her very unhappy and when
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: he was led away into the great building she dived
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: down sorrowfully into the water and returned to her father's
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: castle she had always been silent and thoughtful and now
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: she was more so than ever her sisters asked her
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: what she had seen during her first visit to the
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: surface of the water but she would tell them nothing
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: many an evening and morning did she rise to the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: place where she had left the prince she saw the
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: fruits in the garden ripen till they were gathered the
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: snow on the tops of the mountains melt away but
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: she never saw the prince and therefore she returned home
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: always more sorrowful than before it was her only comfort
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: to sit in her own little garden and fling her
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: arm round the beautiful marble stature which was like the
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: prince but she gave up tending her flowers and they
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: grew in wild confusion over the path twining their long
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: leaves and stems around the branches of the trees so
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: that the whole place became dark and gloomy at length
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: she could bear it no longer and told one of
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: her sisters all about it then the others heard the
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: secret and very soon it became known to two mermaids
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: whose intimate friend happened to know who the prince was
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: she had also seen the festival on board the ship
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: and she told them where the prince came from and
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: where his palace stood come on little sister said the
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: other princesses then they entwined their arms and rose up
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: in a long row to the surface of the water
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: close by the spot where they knew the princess palace
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: stood it was built of bright yellow shining stone with
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: long flights of marble steps one of which reached quite
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: down to the sea splendid gilded cupolas rose over the
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: roof and between the pillars that surrounded the whole building
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: stood lifelike statues of marble through the clear crystal of
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: the lofty windows could be seen noble homes with costly
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: silk curtains and hangings of tapestry while the walls were
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: covered with beautiful paintings which were a pleasure to look
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: at in the centre of the largest saloon a fountain
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: threw its sparkling jets high into the glass cupola of
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: the ceiling through which the sun shone down upon the
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: water and upon the beautiful plants growing around the basin
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: of the fountain now that she knew where he lived
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: she spent many a morning and many a night on
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: the water near the palace she would swim much nearer
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: to the shore than any of the others ventured to
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: do indeed once she went quite up the narrow channel
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: under the marble balcony which threw a broad shadow on
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: the water here she would sit and watch the young
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: prince who sought himself quite alone in the bright moonlight
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: she saw him many times of an evening sailing in
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: a pleasant boat with music playing and flags waving she
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  Speaker 2: peeped out from among the green rushes and if the
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  Speaker 2: wind caught her long silvery white veil those who saw
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  Speaker 2: it believed it to be a swan spreading out its
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  Speaker 2: wings on many a night too when the fishermen with
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: their torches were out at sea she heard them relate
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  Speaker 2: so many good things about the doings of the young
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: prince that she was glad she had saved his life
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: when he had been tossed about half dead on the
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: waves and she remembered that his head had rested on
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: her bosom and how heartily she had kissed him but
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: he knew nothing of all this and could not even
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: dream of her she grew more and more fond of
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  Speaker 2: human beings and wished more and more to be able
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  Speaker 2: to wander about with those whose world seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: so much larger than her own they could fly over
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  Speaker 2: the sea in ships and mount high hills which were
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: far above the clouds and the lands they possessed the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: woods and fields stretched far away beyond the reach of
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: her sight there was so much that she wished to
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: know and her sisters were unable to answer all her
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: questions then she replied to her old grandmother who knew
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: all about the upper world which she very rightly called
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: the lands above the sea if human beings are not
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: drowned asked a little mermaid can they live for ever
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: do they never die as we do here in the
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: sea yes replied the old lady they must also die
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: and their term of life is even shorter than ours
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: we sometimes live to three hundred years but when we
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: cease to exist here we only become the foam on
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: the surface of the water and we have not even
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: a grave down here of those we love we have
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: not immortal souls we shall never live again but like
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: the green seaweed when once it has been cut off
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: we can never flourish more human beings on the contrary
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  Speaker 2: have a soul which lives forever lives after the body
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  Speaker 2: that has been turned to dust it rises up through
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  Speaker 2: the clear pure air beyond the glittering stars as we
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: rise out of the water and behold all the land
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: of the earth so do they rise to unknown and
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: glorious regions which we shall never see why have not
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: we an immortal soul asked the little mermaid mournfully i
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: would give gladly all the hundreds of years that i
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: have to live to be a human being only for
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: one day and to have the hope of knowing the
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: happiness of that glorious world above the stars you must
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: not think of that said the old woman we feel
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: ourselves to be much happier and much better off than
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: human beings so i shall die said the little mermaid
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  Speaker 2: and as the foam of the sea i shall be
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  Speaker 2: driven about never again to hear the music of the
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: waves or see the pretty flowers nor the red sun
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: is there anything i can do to win an immortal
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: soul no said the old woman unless a man were
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: to love you so much that you were more to
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: him than his father or mother and if all his
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: thoughts and all his love were fixed upon you and
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: the priest placed his right hand in yours and he
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: promised to be true to you here and hereafter then
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: his soul would glide into your body and you would
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: obtain a share in the future happiness of mankind he
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: would give a soul to you and retain his own
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: as well but this can never happen your fish's tail
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: which amongst us is considered so beautiful is thought on
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: earth to be quite ugly they do not know any
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: better and they think it necessary to have two stout
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: props which they call legs in order to be handsome
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: then the little mermaid sighed and looked sorrowfully at her
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: fish's tail let us be happy said the old lady
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: and dartons bring about during the three hundred years that
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: we have to live which is really quite long enough
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: after that we can rest ourselves all the better this
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: evening we are going to have a court ball the
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: little mermaid part it is one of those splendid sights
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: which we can never see on earth the walls and
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: the ceiling of the large ballroom were of thick but
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: transparent crystal many hundreds of colossal shells some of a
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: deep red others of a grass green stood on each
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: side in rows with blue fire in them which lighted
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: up the whole saloon and shone through the walls so
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: that the sea was also illuminated innumerable fishes great and
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: small swam past the crystal walls on some of them
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: the scales glowed with a purple brilliancy through the halls
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: flowed a broad stream and in it danced the merman
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: and the mermaids to the music of their own sweet
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: singing no one on earth has such a lovely voice
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: as theirs the little mermaids sing more sweetly than them
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: all the whole court applauded her with hands and tails
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: and for a moment her heart felt quite gay for
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: she knew she had the loveliest voice of any on
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: earth or in the sea but soon she thought again
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: of the world above her for she could not forget
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: the charming prince nor her sorrow that she had not
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: an immortal soul like his therefore she kept away silently
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: out of her father's palace and while everything within was
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: gladness and song she sat in her own little garden
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: sorrowful and alone then she heard the bugle sounding through
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: the water and thought he is certainly sailing above he
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: on whom my wishes depend and in whose hands i
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: should like to place the happiness of my life i
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: will venture all for him and to win an immortal
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  Speaker 2: soul palace i will go to the sea witch of
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: whom i have always been so much afraid but she
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: can give me counsel and help and then the little
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: mermaid went out from her garden and took the road
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: to the foaming whirlpools behind which the sorceress lived she
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: had never been that way before neither flowers nor grass
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: grew there nothing but bare, grey, sandy ground stretched out
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: to the whirlpool, where the water, like foaming mill-wills, whirled
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: round everything that it seized, and cast it into the
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: phantomless deep. Through the midst of these crushing whirlpools, the
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: little mermaid was obliged to pass, to reach the dominions
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: of the sea-witch, and also for a long distance the
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: only road lay right across the quantity of a warm,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: bubbling mire, called by the witcher Turfmoor. Beyond this stood
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: which all the trees and flowers were polypi half animals
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: and half plants they looked like serpents with a hundred
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: heads growing out of the ground the branches were long
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: slimy arms with fingers like flexible worms moving limb after
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: limb from the root to the top all that could
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: be reached in the sea they seized upon and held
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: fast so that it never could escape from their clutches
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: The little mermaid was so alarmed at what she saw
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: that she stood still and her heart beat with fear,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: and she was very nearly turning back, but she thought
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: of the prince and of the human soul for which
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: she longed, and her courage returned. She fastened her long
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi might
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: not seize hold of it. She laid her hands together
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: across her bosom, and then she darted forward as if
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: fish should throw the water between the subtle arms and
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: fingers of the ugly polypi, which was stretched out on
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: each side of her. she saw that each held in
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: its grasp something it had seized with its numerous little
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: arms as if they were iron bands they were like
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: skeletons of human beings who had perished at sea and
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: had sunk into deep waters skeletons of land animals oars
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: rather than chests of ships were lying tightly grasped by
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: their clinging arms even a little mermaid whom they had
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: caught and strangled and this seemed the most shocking of
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: all to the little princess she now came to a
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: space of mushy ground in the wood large fat water-snakes
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: were rolling in the mire and showing their ugly trip-coloured
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: bodies in the midst of this spot stood a house
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: built with the bones of shipwrecked human beings there sat
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: the sea witch allowing a toad to eat from her
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: mouth just as people sometimes feed a canary with a
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: piece of sugar she called the ugly water snakes her
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: little chickens and allowed them to crawl all over her
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: bosom i know what you want said the sea witch
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: it is very stupid of you but you shall have
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: your way and it will bring you to sorrow my
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: pretty princess you want to get rid of a fish's
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: tail and to have two so that the young prince
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: may fall in love with you and that you may
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: have an immortal soul and then the witch laughed so
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: loud and disgustingly that the toad and the snakes fell
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: to the ground and lay there wriggling about you are
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: but just in time said the witch for after sunrise
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: tomorrow i should not be able to help you till
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: the end of another year i will prepare a draught
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: for you with which you must swim to land tomorrow
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: before sunrise and sit down on the shore and drink
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: it your tail will then disappear and shrink up into
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: what mankind calls legs and you will feel great pain
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: as if a sword were passing through you but all
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: who see you will say that you are the prettiest
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: little human being they ever saw you will still have
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: the same floating gracefulness of movement and no dancer will
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: ever tread so lightly but at every step you take
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: it will feel as if you were treading upon sharp
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: knives and that the blood must flow if you will
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: be all this i will help you yes i will
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: said the little princess in a trembling voice as she
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: thought of the prince and the immortal soul but think
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: again said the witch for when once your shape has
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: become like a human being you can no more be
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: a mermaid you will never return through the water to
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: your sister's or to your father's palace again and if
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: you do not win the love of the prince so
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: that he is willing to forget his father and mother
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: for your sake and to love you with his whole
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: soul and to allow the priest to join your hands
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: so that you may be man and wife then you
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: will never have an immortal soul the first morning after
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: he marries an other your heart will break and you
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: will become foam on the crest of the waves i
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: will do it said the little mermaid and she became
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: as pale as death but i must be paid also
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: said the witch and it is not a trifle that
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: i ask You have the sweetest voice of any who
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: dwell here in the depths of the sea, and you
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: believe that you will be able to charm the prince
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: with it also. But this voice you must give to me.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: The best thing you possess I will have for the
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: price of my draught. My own blood must be mixed
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: with it, that it may be as sharp as a
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: two-edged sword. But if you take away my voice, said
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: the little mermaid, what is left for me? Your beautiful form,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes. Surely with these
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: you can enchain a man's heart. well have you lost
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: your courage put out your little tongue that i may
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: cut it off as my payment then you shall have
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: your powerful draught it shall be said the little mermaid
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: then the witch placed the cauldron in the fire to
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: prepare the magic draught cleanliness is a good thing said
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: she scouring the vessel with snakes which she had tied
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: together in a large knot then she pricked herself in
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: the breast and let the black blood drop into it
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: the steam that rose formed itself into such horrible shapes
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: that no one could look at them without fear every
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: moment the witch threw something into the vessel and when
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: it began to boil the sound was like the weeping
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: of a crocodile when at last the magic draught was
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: ready it looked like the clearest water there it is
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: for you said the witch and then she cut off
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: the mermaid's tongue so that she became dumb and would
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: never again speak or sing if the polly-pie should seize
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: hold of you as you return through the wood said
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: the witch throw over them a few drops of the
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: potion and their fingers will be torn into a thousand
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: pieces but the little mermaid had no occasion to do
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: this for the polypies sprang back in terror when they
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: caught sight of the glittering draught which shone in her
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: hand like a twinkling star so she passed quickly through
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: the wood and the marsh and between the rushing whirlpools
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: she saw that in her father's palace the torches in
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: the ballroom were extinguished and all was in a sleep
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: but she did not venture to go into them for
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: now she was dumb and going to leave them forever
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: she felt as if her heart would break she stole
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: into the garden and took a flower from the flower
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: beds of each of her sisters kissed her hand a
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: thousand times toward the palace and then rose through the
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: dark blue waters the sun had not risen when she
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: came in sight of the princess palace and approached the
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: beautiful marble steps but the moon shone clear and bright
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: then the little mermaid drank her magic draught and it
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: body she fell into a swoon and lay like one
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: dead when the sun arose and shone over the sea
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: she recovered and felt a sharp pain but just before
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: her stood a handsome young prince he fixed his cool
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: black eyes upon her so earnestly that she cast down
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: her own and then became aware that her fish's tail
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: was gone and that she had as pretty a pair
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: of white legs and tiny feet as any little maiden
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: could have but she had no clothes so she wrapped
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: herself in her long thick hair the prince asked who
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: she was and where she came from and she looked
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: at him mildly and sorrowfully with her deep blue eyes
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: but she could not speak every step she took was
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: as the witch had said it would be she felt
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: as if treading upon the points of needles or sharp
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: knives but she bore it willingly and stepped as lightly
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: by the prince's side as a soap-bubble so that he
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: and all who saw her wondered at her graceful swaying
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: movements She was very soon arrayed in costly robes of
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: silk and muslin, and was the most beautiful creature in
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: the palace. But she was dumb, and could neither speak
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: nor sing. Beautiful female slaves, dressed in silk and gold,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: stepped forward, and sang before the prince and his royal parents.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: One sang better than all the others, and the prince
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: clapped his hands and smiled at her. This was great
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: sorrow to the little mermaid. She knew how much more
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: sweetly she herself could sing once, and she thought, Oh,
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: if he could only know that! i have given away
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: my voice for ever to be with him the slave
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: snakes performed some pretty fairy-like dances to the sound of
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: the beautiful music then the little mermaid raised her lovely
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: white arms stood on the tips of her toes and
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: glided over the floor and danced as no one yet
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: had been able to dance at each moment her beauty
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: became more revealed and her expressive eyes appealed more directly
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: to their heart than the songs of the slaves everyone
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: was enchanted especially the prince who called her his little
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: foundling and she danced again quite readily to please him
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: though each time her foot touched the floor it seemed
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: as if she trod on sharp knives the prince said
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: she should remain with him always and she received permission
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: to sleep at his door on a velvet cushion he
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: had a peach dress made for her that she might
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: accompany him on horseback they rode together through the sweet
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: scented woods where the green boughs touched their shoulders and
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: the little birds sang among the fresh leaves she climbed
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: with the prince to the tops of high mountains and
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: although her tender feet bled so that even her steps
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: were marked she only laughed and followed him till they
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: could see the clouds beneath them looking like a flock
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: of birds travelling to distant lands while at the prince's
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: palace and when all the household were asleep she would
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: go and sit on the broad marble steps for it
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: eased her burning feet to base them in the cold
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: sea water and then she thought of all those below
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: in the deep once during the night her sisters came
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: up arm in arm singing sorrowfully as they floated on
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: the water she beckoned to them and then they recognized
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: her and told her how she had grieved them after
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: that they came to the same place every night and
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: once she saw in the distance her old grandmother who
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: had not been to the surface of the sea for
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: many years and the old sea-king her father with his
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: crown on his head they stretched out their hands towards
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: her but they did not venture so near to the
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: land as her sisters did As the days passed, she
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: loved the prince more fondly, and he loved her as
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: he would love a little child but it never came
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: into his head to make her his wife yet unless
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: he married her she could not receive an immortal soul
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: and on the morning after his marriage with another she
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: would dissolve into the foam of the sea do you
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: not love me best of them all the eyes of
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: the little mermaid seemed to say when he took her
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: in his arms and kissed her fair forehead yes you
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: are dear to me said the prince for you have
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  Speaker 2: the best heart and you are the most devoted to
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  Speaker 2: me you are like the young maiden whom i once
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  Speaker 2: saw but whom i shall never meet again i was
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  Speaker 2: in a ship that was wrecked and the waves cast
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  Speaker 2: me ashore near a holy temple where several young maidens
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  Speaker 2: performed their service the youngest of them found me on
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  Speaker 2: the shore and saved my life i saw her but
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 2: twice and she was the only one in the world
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  Speaker 2: whom i could love but you are like her and
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  Speaker 2: you have almost driven her image out of my mind
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  Speaker 2: she belongs to the holy temple and my good fortune
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: has sent you to me instead of her and we
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  Speaker 2: will never part ah he knows not that it was
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  Speaker 2: i who saved his life thought the little mermaid i
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: carried him over the sea to the wood where the
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: temple stands i sat beneath the foam and watched till
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: the human beings came to help him i saw the
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: pretty maiden that he loves better than he loves me
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: and the little mermaid sighed deeply but she could not
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: shed tears he says the maiden belongs to the holy
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: temple therefore she will never return to the world they
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: will meet no more while i am by his side
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  Speaker 2: and see him every day i will take care of
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: him and love him and give up my life for
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: his sake very soon it was said that the prince
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: must marry and that the beautiful daughter of a neighbouring
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: king would be his wife for a fine ship was
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: being fitted out although the prince gave out that he
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: merely intended to pay a visit to the king it
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: was generally supposed that he really went to see his
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: daughter a great company were to go with him the
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: little mermaid smiled and shook her head she knew the
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: prince's thoughts better than any of the others i must
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: travel he said to her i must see this beautiful
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: princess my parents desire it but they will not oblige
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: me to bring her home as my bride i cannot
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  Speaker 2: love her she is not like the beautiful maiden in
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: the temple whom you resemble if i were forced to
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: choose a bride i would rather choose you madame foundling
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: with those expressive eyes and then he kissed a rosy
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: mouse played with her long waving hair and laid his
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: hand on her heart while she dreamed of human happiness
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  Speaker 2: and an immortal soul you are not afraid of the
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: sea my dumb child said he as they stood on
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  Speaker 2: the deck of the noble ship which was to carry
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: them to the country of the neighbouring king and then
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 2: he told her of the storm and of calm of
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: strange fishes in the deep beneath them and what the
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: divers had seen there and she smiled at this description
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: for she knew better than any one what wonders were
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the sea the moonlight when all
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: on board were asleep excepting the man at the helm
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: who was steering she sat on the deck gazing down
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: through the clear water she thought she could distinguish her
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 2: father's castle and upon it her aged grandmother with the
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: silver crown on her head looking through the rushing tide
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: at the keel of the vessel then her sisters came
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: up on the waves and gazed at her mournfully wringing
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: their white hands she beckoned to them and smiled and
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: wanted to tell them how happy and well off she
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: was but the cabin-boy approached and when the sisters dived
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: down he thought it was only the form of the
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: sea which he saw the next morning the ship sailed
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: into the harbor of a beautiful town belonging to the
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: king whom the prince was going to visit the church
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: bells were ringing and from the high towers sounded a
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: flourish of trumpets and soldiers with flying colors and glittering
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: bayonets lined the rocks through which they passed every day
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: was a festival balls and entertainments followed one another but
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: the princess had not yet appeared people said that she
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: was being brought up and educated in a religious house
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: where she was learning every royal virtue at last she
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: came then the little mermaid who was very anxious to
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: see whether she was really beautiful was obliged to acknowledge
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: that she had never seen a more perfect vision of
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: beauty her skin was delicately fair and beneath her long
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: dark eyelashes her loving blue eyes shone with truth and
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: purity it was you said the prince who saved my
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: life when i lay dead on the beach and he
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: folded his blushing bride in his arms oh i am
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: too happy said he to the little mermaid my fondest
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: hopes are fulfilled you will rejoice at my happiness for
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: your devotion to me is great and sincere the little
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: mermaid kissed his hand and felt as if her heart
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: were already broken his sweating mourning would bring death to
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: her and she would change into the form of the
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: sea all the church bells rung and the heralds rose
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: above the town brook leaving the betrothal perfumed oil was
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: burning in costly silver lamps on every altar the priests
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: with their censers while the bride and bridegroom joined their
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: hands and received the blessing of the bishop the little
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: mermaid dressed in silk and gold hurled up the bride's
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: train but her ears heard nothing of the festive music
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: and her eyes saw not the holy ceremony she thought
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: of the night of death which was coming to her
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: and of all she had lost in the world on
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: the same evening the bride and bridegroom went on board
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: the ship cannons were roaring flags waving and in the
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: centre of the ship a costly tent of purple and
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: gold had been erected it contained elegant couches for the
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 2: reception of the bridal pair during the night the ship
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 2: with swelling sails and favourable wind glided away smoothly and
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 2: lightly over the calm sea when it grew dark a
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: number of coloured lamps were lit and the sailors danced
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: merrily on deck the little mermaid could not help thinking
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: of her first rising out of sea when she had
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: seen similar festivities and joys and she joined in the
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: dance pulsed herself in the air as a swallow when
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: he pursued his prey and all present cheered her with
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: wonder she had never danced so elegantly before her tender
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: feet felt as if cut with sharp knives but she
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: cared not for it a sharper pang had pierced through
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: her heart she knew this was the last evening she
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: should ever see the prince for whom she had forsaken
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: her kindred and her home she had given up her
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: beautiful voice and suffered unheard-of pain daily for him while
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: he knew nothing of it this was the last evening
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: that she should breathe the same air with him or
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: gaze on the starry sky and the deep sea an
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: eternal night without a thought or a dream awaited her
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: she had no soul and now she could never win
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: one all was true in gaiety on board the ship
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: till long after midnight she laughed and danced with the
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: rest while the thoughts of death were in her heart
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: The prince kissed his beautiful bride while she played with
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: his raven hair, till they went arm in arm to
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: rest in the splendid tent. Then all became still on
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: board their ship. The helmsman, alone awake, stood at the helm.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the edge
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: of the vessel and looked towards the east for the
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: first blush of morning, for that first ray of dawn
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: that would bring her death. She saw her sisters rising
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: out of the flood. They were as pale as herself.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: for the long beautiful hair waved no more in the
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: wind and had been cut off we have given our
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: hair to the witch said they to obtain help for
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: you that you may not die to-night she has given
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: us a knife here it is see it is very
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: sharp before the sun rises you must plunge it into
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: the heart of the prince when the warm blood falls
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 2: upon your feet they will grow together again and form
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: into a fish's tail and you will be once more
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: a mermaid and return to us to live out your
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: three hundred years before you die and change into dissolved
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: sea-foam hasten here you must die before sunrise our old
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: grandmother mourned so for you that her white hair is
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: falling off from sorrow as yours fell under the witch's
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: scissors kill the prince and come back hasten do you
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: not see the first red streaks in the sky In
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: a few minutes the sun will rise and you must die.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: And then they sighed deeply and mournfully and sank down
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: beneath the waves. The little mermaid drew back the crimson
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: curtain of the tent and beheld the fair bride with
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: her head resting on the prince's breast. She bent down
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: and kissed his fair brow, then looked at the sky
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: on which the rosy dawn grew brighter and brighter. Then
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: she glanced at the sharp knife and again fixed her
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: eyes on the prince, who whispered the name of his
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: bride in his dreams. She was in his thoughts, and
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: the knife trembled in the hand of the little mermaid.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: Then she flung it far from her into the waves.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: The water turned red where it fell, and the drops
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: that spurted up looked like blood. She cast one more lingering,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: half-fainting glance at the prince, and then threw herself from
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: the ship into the sea, and thought her body was
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: dissolving into foam. The sun rose above the waves, and
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: his warm rays fell on the cold foam of the
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: little mermaid, who did not feel as if she were dying.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: She saw the bright sun, and all around her floated
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: hundreds of transparent, beautiful beings. She could see through them
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: the white sails of the ship and the red clouds
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: in the sky. Their speech was melodious, but too ethereal
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: to be heard by mortal ears, as they were also
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: unseen by mortal eyes. The little mermaid perceived that she
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: had a body like theirs, and that she continued to
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: rise higher and higher out of the foam.' Where am I?'
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 2: asked she, and her voice sounded ethereal, as the voice
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: of those who were with her, earthly music could imitate
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: it among the daughters of the air answered one of
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: them a mermaid has not an immortal soul nor can
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: she obtain one unless she wins the love of a
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: human being on the power of an other hangs their
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: eternal destiny but the daughters of the air although they
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: do not possess an immortal soul can by their good
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: deeds procure one for themselves we fly to warm countries
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: and cool the sultry air that destroys mankind with the
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: pestilence we carry the perfume of flowers to spread health
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: and restoration after we have striven for three hundred years
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 2: to all the good in our power we receive an
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: immortal soul and take part of the happiness of mankind
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: you poor little mermaid have tried with your whole heart
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 2: to do as we are doing you have suffered and
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: endured and raised yourself to the spirit world by your
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: good deeds and now by striving for three hundred years
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: in the same way you may obtain an immortal soul
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: the little mermaid lifted her glorified eyes towards the sun
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: and felt them for the first time filling with tears
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: on the ship in which she had left the prince
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: there were life and noise she saw him and his
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: beautiful bride searching for her sorrowfully they gazed at the
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: pearly foam as if they knew she had thrown herself
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: into the waves unseen she kissed the forehead of the
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: bride and fainted prince and then mounted with the other
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: children of the air to a rosy cloud that floated
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: through the ether After three hundred years, thus shall we
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: float into the kingdom of heaven, said she, and we
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 2: may even get there sooner with but one of her companions.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 2: Unseen we can enter the houses of men where there
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: are children, and for every day on which we find
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 2: a good child who is the joy of his parents
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: The child does not know when we fly through the
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: room that we smile with joy at his conduct, for
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: we can count one year less of our three hundred years.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: But when we see a naughty or wicked child, we
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 2: shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: is added to our time of trial. The largest green
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 2: leaf in this country is certainly the burdock leaf. If
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: you hold it in front of you, it is large
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: enough for an apron. It is so wonderfully large. A
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 2: burdock never grows alone. Where it grows there are many more,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: and it is a splendid sight, and all its splendor
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: is good for snails. The great white snails, which grand
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: people in olden times used to have made into fricassees,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 2: and when they had eaten them they would say, Oh,
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: what a delicious dish! For these people really thought them good,
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: and these snails lived on burdock leaves, and for them
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 2: the burdock was planted. There was once an old estate,
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: where no one now lived to require snails. Indeed, the
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 2: owners had all died out, but the burdock still flourished.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: It grew over all the beds and walks of the garden,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: its growth had no check, till it became at last
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: quite a forest of burdocks. Here and there stood an
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: apple or a plum tree, but for this nobody would
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: have thought the place had ever been a garden. It
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: was burdock from one end to the other, and here
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: lived the last two surviving snails. They knew not themselves
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: how old they were, but they could remember the time
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 2: when there were a great many more of them and
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: that they were descended from a family which came from
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 2: foreign lands and that the whole forest had been planted
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: for them and theirs they had never been away from
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: their garden but they knew that another place once existed
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: in the world called the duke's palace castle in which
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 2: some of their relations had been boiled till they became
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: black and were then laid on a silver dish but
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: what was done afterwards they did not know Besides, they
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 2: could not imagine exactly how it felt to be boiled
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: and placed on a silver dish, but no doubt it
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 2: was something very fine and highly genteel. Neither the cockchafer
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: nor the toad nor the earthworm whom they questioned about
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: it would give them the least information, for none of
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: their relations had ever been cooked or served on a
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 2: silver dish. The old white snails were the most aristocratic
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: race in the world. They knew that. the forest had
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 2: been planted for them and the nobleman's castle had been
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: built entirely that they might be cooked and laid on
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: silver dishes they lived quite retired and very happily and
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: as they had no children of their own they adopted
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: a little coming snail which they brought up as their
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: own child the little one would not grow for he
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 2: was only a common snail but the old people particularly
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: the mother snail declared that she could easily see how
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: he grew and when the father said he could not
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 2: perceive it she begged him to fill the little snail's
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: shell and he did so and found that the mother
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: was right one day it rained very fast listen what
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: the drumming there is on the burdock leaves turn turn
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: turn turn turn turn said the father snail there come
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: the drops said the mother they are trickling down the
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: stalks we shall have it very wet here presently i
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: am very glad we have such good houses and that
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: the little one has one of his own there has
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: really been more done for us than for any other
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 2: creature it is quite plain that we are the most
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 2: noble people in the world we have houses from our
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 2: birth and the burdock forest has been planted for us
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: i should very much like to know how far it
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: extends and what lies beyond it there can be nothing
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 2: better than we have here said the father snail i
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: wish for nothing more yes but i do said the
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: mother i should like to be taken to the palace
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 2: and boiled and laid upon a silver dish as was
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: done to all our ancestors and you may be sure
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 2: it must be something very uncommon the nobleman's castle perhaps
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: has fallen to decay said the snail father or the
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 2: burdock wood may have grown out you need not be
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: in a hurry you are always so impatient and the
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 2: youngster is getting just the same he has been here
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 2: three days creeping to the top of that stalk i
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 2: feel quite giddy when i look at him you must
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 2: not scold him said the mother snail he creeps very
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: carefully he will be the joy of our home and
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: we old folks have nothing else to live for but
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: have you ever thought where we are to get a
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: wife for him do you think that farther out in
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: the wood there may be others of our race They
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 2: may be black snails, no doubt, said the old snail,
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 2: black snails without houses, but they are so vulgar and
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: conceited too. But we can give the aunts a commission.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 2: They run here and there as if they all had
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 2: so much business to get through. They, most likely, will
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 2: know of a wife for our youngster. I certainly know
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 2: a most beautiful bride, said one of the aunts, but
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 2: I fear it would not do, for she is a queen.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 2: That does not matter, said the old snail. Has she
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 2: a house? She has a palace, replied the aunt. a
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 2: most beautiful aunt palace with seven hundred passages thank you
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: said the mother snail but our boy shall not go
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 2: to live in an aunt hill if you know of
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 2: nothing better we will give the commission to the white
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 2: gnats they fly about in rain and sunshine they know
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 2: the burdock wood from one end to the other we
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 2: have a wife for him said the gnats a hundred
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  Speaker 2: man steps from here there is a little snail with
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  Speaker 2: a house sitting in a gooseberry bush she is quite
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  Speaker 2: alone and old enough to be married it is only
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  Speaker 2: one hundred man steps from here then let her come
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  Speaker 2: to him said the old people she has the whole
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  Speaker 2: burdock forest she has only a bush so they brought
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  Speaker 2: the little lady snail she took eight days to perform
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  Speaker 2: the journey but that was just as it ought to
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  Speaker 2: be for it showed her to be one of the
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  Speaker 2: right breeding and then they had the wedding six glowworms
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  Speaker 2: gave as much light as they could but in other
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  Speaker 2: respects it was all very quiet for the old snails
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  Speaker 2: could not bear festivities or a crowd but the beautiful
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  Speaker 2: speech was made by the mother snail. The father could
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  Speaker 2: not speak, he was too much overcome. then they gave
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  Speaker 2: the whole burdock forest to the young snails as an
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  Speaker 2: inheritance and repeated what they had so often said that
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  Speaker 2: it was the finest place in the world and that
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  Speaker 2: if they led upright and honorable lives and their family
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  Speaker 2: increased they and their children might some day be taken
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  Speaker 2: to the nobleman's palace to be boiled black and laid
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  Speaker 2: on a silver dish and when they had finished speaking
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  Speaker 2: the old couple crept into their houses and came out
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  Speaker 2: no more for they slept the young snail pair now
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  Speaker 2: ruled the forest and had numerous progeny but as the
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  Speaker 2: young ones were never boiled or laid in silver dishes
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  Speaker 2: they concluded that the castle had fallen into decay and
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  Speaker 2: that all the people in the world were dead and
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  Speaker 2: as nobody contradicted them they thought they must be right
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  Speaker 2: and the rain fell upon the burdock leaves to play
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  Speaker 2: the drum for them and the sun shone two pink
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  Speaker 2: colours on the burdock forest for them and they were
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  Speaker 2: very happy the whole family were entirely and perfectly happy
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  Speaker 2: the snow queen and other stories in china you know
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  Speaker 2: the emperor is a chinese though those about him are
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  Speaker 2: chinamen also the story i am going to tell you
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  Speaker 2: happened a great many years ago so it is well
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  Speaker 2: to hear it now before it is forgotten the emperor's
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  Speaker 2: palace was the most beautiful in the world it was
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  Speaker 2: built entirely of porcelain and very costly but so delicate
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  Speaker 2: and brittle that whoever touched it was obliged to be
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  Speaker 2: careful in the garden could be seen the most singular
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  Speaker 2: flowers with pretty silver bells tied to them which tingled
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  Speaker 2: so that every one who passed could not help noticing
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  Speaker 2: the flowers indeed everything in the emperor's garden was remarkable
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  Speaker 2: and it extended so far that the gardener himself did
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  Speaker 2: not know where it ended those who travelled beyond its
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  Speaker 2: limits knew that there was a noble forest with lofty
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  Speaker 2: trees sloping down to the deep blue sea and the
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  Speaker 2: great ships sealed under the shadow of its branches in
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  Speaker 2: one of these trees lived a nightingale who sang so
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  Speaker 2: beautifully that even the poor fisherman who had so many
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  Speaker 2: other things to do would stop and listen sometimes when
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  Speaker 2: they went at night to spread their nets they would
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  Speaker 2: hear her sing and say oh is not that beautiful
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  Speaker 2: but when they returned to their fishing they forgot the
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  Speaker 2: bird until the next night then they would hear it
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  Speaker 2: again and exclaim oh how beautiful is the nightingale's song
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: travellers from every country in the world came to the
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  Speaker 2: city of the emperor which they admired very much as
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  Speaker 2: well as the palace and the gardens but when they
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  Speaker 2: heard the nightingale they all declared it to be the
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  Speaker 2: best of all and the travellers on their return home
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  Speaker 2: related what they had seen and learned men wrote books
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  Speaker 2: containing the scriptures of the town the palace and the
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  Speaker 2: gardens but they did not forget the nightingale which was
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  Speaker 2: really the greatest wonder and those who could write poetry
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  Speaker 2: composed beautiful verses about the nightingale who lived in a
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  Speaker 2: forest near the deep sea the books travelled all over
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  Speaker 2: the world and some of them came into the hands
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  Speaker 2: of the emperor and he sat in his golden chair
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  Speaker 2: and as he read he noted disapproval every moment for
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 2: it pleased him to find such a beautiful description of
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 2: his city his palace and his gardens but when he
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  Speaker 2: came to the words the nightingale is the most beautiful
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  Speaker 2: of all he exclaimed what is this i know nothing
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  Speaker 2: of any nightingale is there such a bird in my
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  Speaker 2: empire and even in my garden i have never heard
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  Speaker 2: of it something it appears may be learned from books
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  Speaker 2: then he called one of his lords in waiting who
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  Speaker 2: was so high-bred that when any in an inferior rank
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  Speaker 2: to himself spoke to him or asked him a question
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  Speaker 2: he would answer pooh which means nothing there is a
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  Speaker 2: very wonderful bird mentioned here called a nightingale said the
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  Speaker 2: emperor they say it is the best thing in my
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  Speaker 2: large kingdom why have you not been told of it
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  Speaker 2: i have never heard the name replied the cavalier she
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  Speaker 2: has not been presented in court it is my pleasure
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  Speaker 2: that she shall appear this evening said the emperor the
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  Speaker 2: whole world knows what i possess better than i do
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  Speaker 2: myself i have never heard of her said the cavalier
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  Speaker 2: yet i will endeavour to find her but where was
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  Speaker 2: the nightingale to be found the nobleman went up the
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 2: stairs and down through halls and passages yet none of
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: those whom he met had heard of the bird so
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 2: he returned to the emperor and said it must be
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  Speaker 2: a fable invented by those who had written the book
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 2: your imperial majesty said he cannot believe everything contained in
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 2: books sometimes they are only fiction or what is called
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: the black art but the book in which i write
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  Speaker 2: this account said the emperor was sent to me by
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  Speaker 2: the great and mighty emperor of japan and therefore it
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  Speaker 2: cannot contain a foreword i will hear the nightingale she
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  Speaker 2: must be here this evening she has my highest favor
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  Speaker 2: and if she does not come the whole court shall
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  Speaker 2: be trampled upon after supper has ended tsing pei cried
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 2: the lord in waiting and again ran up and down
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 2: the stairs through all the holes and corridors and half
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 2: the court ran with him for they did not like
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: the idea of being trampled upon there was a great
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 2: inquiry about this wonderful nightingale whom all the world knew
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 2: but who was unknown to the court at last they
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 2: met with a poor little girl in the kitchen who
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  Speaker 2: said oh yes i know the nightingale quite well indeed
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 2: she can sing every evening i have permission to take
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  Speaker 2: home to my poor sick mother the scraps from the
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 2: table she lives down by the seashore and as i
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 2: come back i feel tired and sit down in the
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 2: wood to rest and listen to the nightingale's song then
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 2: the tears come into my eyes and it is just
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  Speaker 2: as if my mother kissed me little maiden said the
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  Speaker 2: lord in waiting i will obtain for you constant employment
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen and you shall have permission to see
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  Speaker 2: the emperor dine if you will lead us to the
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  Speaker 2: nightingale for she is invited for this evening to the
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  Speaker 2: palace So she went to the wood where the nightingale sang,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 2: and half the court followed her. As they went along,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: a cow began lowing. Oh, said the young quartier, now
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 2: we have found her. What wonderful power for such a
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 2: small creature! I have certainly heard it before. No, that
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: is only a cow lowing, said the little girl. We
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: are a long way from the place yet. Then some
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 2: frogs began to croak in the marsh. Beautiful, said the
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 2: young quartier again. Now I hear it, tinkling like little
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 2: church bells. no those are frogs said the little maiden
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: but i think we shall hear her soon now and
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: presently the nightingale began to sing hark hark there she
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 2: is said the girl and there she sits she added
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  Speaker 2: pointing to a little grey bird who was perched on
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 2: a bough is it possible said the lord in waiting
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 2: i never imagined it would be a little plain simple
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 2: thing like that she is certain to change colour at
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 2: seeing so many grand people around her little nightingale cried
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 2: the girl raising her voice Our most gracious emperor wishes
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 2: you to sing before him. With the greatest pleasure, said
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: the nightingale, and began to sing most delightfully. It sounds
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 2: like tiny glass bells, said the lord in waiting, and
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: see how her little throat works. It is surprising that
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 2: you have never heard this before. She will be a
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: great success at court. Shall I sing once more before
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 2: the emperor, asked the nightingale, who thought he was present.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 2: My excellent little nightingale, said the courtier, with the great
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 2: pleasure of inviting you to a court festival this evening
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: where you will gain imperial favor by your charming song
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 2: my song sounds best in greenwood said the bird but
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 2: still she came willingly when she heard the emperor's wish
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 2: the palace was elegantly decorated for the occasion the walls
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 2: and floors of porcelain glittered in the light of a
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 2: thousand lamps beautiful flowers round which little bells were tied
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: stood in the corridors but with the running to and
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: fro and the draught these pearls so loudly that no
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 2: one could speak to be heard in the centre of
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: the great hall a golden perch had been fixed for
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: the nightingale to sit on the whole court was present
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 2: and the little kitchen-maid had received permission to stand by
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 2: the door she was not installed as a real court
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 2: cook All were in full dress, and every eye was
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: turned to the little grey bird when the emperor nodded
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: to her to begin. The nightingale sang so sweetly that
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 2: the tears came to the emperor's eyes and then rolled
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 2: down his cheeks, as her song became still more touching
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 2: and went to everyone's heart. The emperor was so delighted
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 2: that he declared the nightingale should have his golden slipper
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 2: to wear around her neck, but she declared the honour
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 2: with thanks. She had been sufficiently rewarded already. I have
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: seen tears in the emperor's eyes, she said. this is
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: my richest reward when emperors tears have wonderful power they
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 2: are quite sufficient honor for me and then she sang
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 2: again more enchantingly than ever that singing is a lovely
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 2: gift said the ladies of the court to each other
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: and then they took water in their mouths to make
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: them utter the gurgling sounds of the nightingale when they
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 2: spoke to any one so that they might fancy themselves
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 2: nightingales and the footmen and chambermaids also expressed their satisfaction
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: which is saying a great deal for they are very
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: difficult to please In fact, the nightingale's visit was more successful.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: She was now to remain at court, to have her
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 2: own cage, with liberty to go out twice a day,
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 2: and once during the night. Twelve servants were appointed to
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: attend her on these occasions, who each held her by
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 2: a silken string fastened to her leg. There was certainly
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 2: not much pleasure in this kind of flying. The whole
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 2: city spoke of the wonderful bird, and when two people met,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 2: one said nighting, and the other said gale, and they
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 2: understood what was meant, for nothing else was talked of.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 2: Eleven peddlers' children were named after her, but not one
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 2: of them could sing a note. End of Part 1
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 2: of The Nightingale Read by Ellie in August 2012 Recording
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 2: by Ellie The Snow Queen and Other Stories by Hans
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: Christian Andersen Translated by H.B. Paul The Nightingale Part 2
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 2: one day the emperor received a large packet on which
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 2: was written the nightingale here is no doubt a new
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 2: book about our celebrated bird said the emperor but instead
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: of a book it was a work of art contained
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 2: in a casket an artificial nightingale made to look like
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 2: a living one and covered all over with diamonds rubies
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 2: and sapphires as soon as the artificial bird was wound
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: up it could sing like a real one and could
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: move its tail up and down which sparkled with silver
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 2: and gold round its neck hung a piece of ribbon
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 2: on which was written the emperor of japan's nightingale is
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 2: poor compared to that of the emperor of china's this
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 2: is very beautiful exclaimed all who saw it and he
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 2: who had brought the artificial bird received the title of
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 2: imperial nightingale bringer in chief now they must sing together
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 2: said the court and what a duet it will be
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 2: but they did not get on well for the royal
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 2: nightingale sang in its own natural way but the artificial
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 2: bird sang only waltzes that is not the fault said
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 2: the music-master it is quite perfect to my taste so
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 2: then it had to sing alone and was as successful
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 2: as the real bird besides it was so much prettier
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 2: to look at for it sparkled like bracelets and breastpins
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 2: three and thirty times did it sing the same tunes
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: without being tired the people who clearly have heard it
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 2: again but the emperor said the living nightingale ought to
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 2: sing something but where was she no one had noticed
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 2: her when she flew out at the open window back
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 2: to her own green woods what a strange conduct said
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: the emperor when her flight had been discovered and all
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: the courtiers blamed her and said she was a very
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: ungrateful creature but we have the best bird after all
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 2: said one and then they would have the bird sing
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 2: again although it was the thirty-fourth time they had listened
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 2: to the same piece and even then they had not
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 2: learned it for it was rather difficult but the music-master
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 2: praised the bird in the highest degree and even asserted
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: that it was better than the real nightingale not only
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 2: in its dress and beautiful diamonds but also in its
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 2: musical power for you must perceive my chief lord and
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 2: emperor that with a real nightingale we can never tell
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: what is going to be sung but with this bird
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: everything is settled it can be opened and explained so
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: that people may understand how the vultures are formed and
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: why one note follows upon another this is exactly what
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: we think they all replied and then the music-master received
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 2: permission following sunday and the emperor commanded that they should
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 2: be present to hear it sing when they heard it
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 2: they were like people intoxicated however it must have been
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 2: with drinking tea which is quite a chinese custom they
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: all said oh and held up their forefingers and nodded
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 2: but the poor fisherman who had heard the real nightingale
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 2: said it sounds pretty enough and the melodies are all
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 2: alike yet there seems something wanting i cannot exactly tell
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 2: what and after this the royal nightingale was banished from
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 2: the empire and the artificial bird placed on a silk
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 2: cushion close to the emperor's bed the presents of gold
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: and precious stones which had been received with it were
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 2: round the bird and it was now advanced to the
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 2: title of little imperial toilet-singer and to the rank of
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: number one on the left hand for the emperor considered
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 2: the left side on which the heart lies as the
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: most noble and the heart of an emperor is in
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 2: the same place as that of other people the music
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 2: master wrote a work in twenty-five volumes about the artificial
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: bird which was very learned and very long and full
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: of the most difficult chinese words yet all the pupils
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: said they had read it and understood it for fear
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 2: of being thought stupid and having their bodies trampled upon
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 2: so a year passed and the emperor the court and
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 2: all the other chinese knew every little turn in the
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 2: artificial bird's song and for that same reason it pleased
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 2: them better they could sing with the bird which they
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 2: often did the street boys sang zizi cluck cluck cluck
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 2: and the emperor himself could sing it also it was
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 2: really most amusing one evening when the artificial bird was
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 2: singing its best and the emperor lay in bed listening
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: to it something inside the bird sounded with then a
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 2: spring cracked there went all the wheels running round and
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 2: then the music stopped The emperor immediately sprang out of
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 2: bed and called for his physician, but what could he do?
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 2: Then they sent for the watchmaker, and after a great
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 2: deal of talking and examination the bird was put into
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 2: something like order. But he said it must be used
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 2: very carefully, as the barrels were worn, and it would
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 2: be impossible to put in new ones without injuring the music.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 2: Now there was great sorrow, as the bird could only
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 2: be allowed to play once a year, and even that
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 2: was dangerous for the works inside it. then the music-master
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: made a little speech full of hard words and declared
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 2: that the bird was as good as ever and of
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 2: course no one contradicted him five years passed and then
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 2: a real grief came upon the land the chinese really
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 2: were fond of their emperor and now he lay so
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 2: ill that he was not expected to live already a
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: new emperor had been chosen and the people who stood
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 2: in the street asked the lord in waiting how the
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 2: old emperor was but he only said pooh and shook
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 2: his head cold and pale lay the emperor in his
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 2: royal bed the whole court thought he was dead and
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: every one ran away to pay homage to his successor
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 2: the chamberlains went out to have a talk on the
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: matter and the ladies maids invited company to take coffee
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: clothes had been laid down in the halls and passages
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: so that not a footstep could be heard and all
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 2: was silent and still but the emperor was not yet
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 2: dead although he lay white and stiff on his gorgeous
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: bed with the long velvet curtains and heavy gold tassels
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 2: a window stood open and the moon shone in upon
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 2: the emperor and the artificial bird the poor emperor finding
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 2: who could scarcely breathe with a strange weight on his
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 2: chest opened his eyes and saw death sitting there all
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 2: around the bed and peeping through the long velvet curtains
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 2: were a number of strange heads some very ugly others
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 2: lovely and gentle-looking these were the emperor's good and bad
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 2: deeds which stared him in the face now death sat
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 2: at his heart do you remember this do you recollect
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  Speaker 2: that they asked after one another thus bringing to his
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  Speaker 2: remembrance circumstances which made the perspiration stand on his brow
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  Speaker 2: i know nothing about it said the emperor music music
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  Speaker 2: he cried the large chinese drum that they may not
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  Speaker 2: hear what they say but they still went on and
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  Speaker 2: thus nodded like a chinaman to all they said music
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  Speaker 2: music shouted the emperor you precious golden bird sing pray
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  Speaker 2: sing i've given you gold in costly presents i've even
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  Speaker 2: hung my golden slipper round your neck sing sing but
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: the bird remained silent there was no one to wind
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 2: it up and therefore it could not sing a note
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 2: death continued to stare at the emperor with his cold
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 2: hollow eyes and the room was fearfully still suddenly there
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 2: came through the open window the sound of sweet music
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 2: outside on the bough of a tree sat the living
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 2: nightingale she had heard of the emperor's illness and was
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 2: therefore come to sing to him of hope and trust
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  Speaker 2: and as she sung the shadows grew paler and paler
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 2: the blood in the emperor's veins flowed more rapidly and
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 2: gave life to his weak limbs and even death himself
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  Speaker 2: listened and said go on little nightingale go on Then
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  Speaker 2: will you give me the beautiful golden sword and the
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 2: dredge banner, and will you give me the emperor's crown?
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  Speaker 2: said the bird. So Death gave up each of these
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 2: treasures for a song, and the nightingale continued her singing.
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 2: She sang of the quiet churchyard, where the white roses grow,
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 2: where the elder tree wafts its perfume on the breeze,
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  Speaker 2: and the fresh sweet grass is moistened by the moon's tears.
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 2: Then Death longed to go and see his garden, and
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 2: floated out through the window in the form of a
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  Speaker 2: cold white mist. Thanks, thanks, you heavenly little bird. I
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 2: know you well. I banished you from my kingdom once,
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  Speaker 2: and yet you have charmed away the evil faces from
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  Speaker 2: my bed, and banished death from my heart with your song.
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 2: How can I report you? You have already rewarded me,
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 2: said the nightingale. I shall never forget that I drew
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 2: tears from your eyes the first time I sang to you.
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 2: These are the jewels that rejoice the singer's heart. But
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: now sleep and grow strong and well again. I will
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 2: sing for you again. And as she sang, the emperor
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 2: fell into a sweet sleep. and how mild and refreshing
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 2: that slumber was when he awoke strengthened and restored the
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 2: sun shone brightly through the window but not one of
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 2: his servants returned they all believed he was dead only
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 2: the nightingale still sat beside him and sang you must
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 2: always remain with me said the emperor you shall sing
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: only when he pleases you and i will break the
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 2: artificial bird into a thousand pieces no do not do
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 2: that replied the nightingale the bird did very well as
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 2: long as it could keep it here still i cannot
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 2: live in the palace and build my nest but let
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: me come when i like i will sit on a
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 2: bough outside your window in the evening and sing to
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 2: you so that you may be happy and have thoughts
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 2: full of joy i will sing to you of those
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 2: who are happy and those who suffer of the good
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 2: and the evil who are hidden around you the little
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 2: singing bird flies far from you and you are caught
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 2: to the home of the fisherman and the peasant's i
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 2: love your heart better than your crown and yet something
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 2: holy lingers around it also i will come i will
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 2: sing to you but you must promise me one thing
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  Speaker 2: everything said the emperor who having dressed himself in his
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 2: imperial robes stood with the hand that held the heavy
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 2: golden sword pressed to his heart i only ask one
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 2: thing she replied let no one know that you have
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 2: a little bird who tells you everything it will be
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  Speaker 2: the best to conceal it so saying the nightingale flew
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 2: away The servants now came in to look after the
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 2: dead emperor, when lo, there he stood, and to their
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 2: astonishment said, Good morning.