"Beauty and the Beast:" The Need for Beauty
A rich merchant with three sons and three daughters– the eldest daughters hold out on marriage to a Duke or Earl, but the youngest, aptly-named Beauty, does so to stay with her father a few more years. The merchant falls in his fortunes, and they have to move to the country. The men apply themselves to husbandry and tillage, and Beauty to housework, but the eldest stay lazy.
One day, the merchant gets a letter about a ship arriving with effects of his and he sets off, asking his daughters what they would like. The eldest ask for goods of luxury, but Beauty only for a simple rose. When the…
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