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  Speaker 1: Section zero of The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. This
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  Speaker 1: of Challes Pierrat by Charles Perrault, translated by Robert Samba
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  Speaker 1: and J. E. Manson. Section zero introduction avec al d'aur
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  Speaker 1: ilemars le boizarre Griselidis. Charles Perraut must have been as
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  Speaker 1: charming a fellow as a man could meet. He is
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  Speaker 1: one of the best like personages of his own great age,
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  Speaker 1: and he has remained ever since a prime favorite of mankind.
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  Speaker 1: We are fortunate in knowing a great deal about his
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  Speaker 1: varied life, deriving our knowledge mainly from Dalember's history of
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  Speaker 1: the French Academy and from his own memoirs, which were
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  Speaker 1: written for his grandchildren but not published till sixty six
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  Speaker 1: years after his death. We should, i think, be more
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  Speaker 1: fortunate still if the memoirs had not ceased in mid career,
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  Speaker 1: or if their author had permitted himself to write of
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  Speaker 1: his family affairs without reserve or restraint. In the approved
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  Speaker 1: manner of modern autobiography. We should like, for example, to
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  Speaker 1: know much more than we do about the wife and
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  Speaker 1: the two sons to whom he was so devoted. Perralt
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  Speaker 1: was born in Paris in sixteen twenty eight, the fifth
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  Speaker 1: son of Pierre Perault, a prosperous parliamentary lawyer, and at
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  Speaker 1: the age of nine were sent to a day's school,
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  Speaker 1: the College de Beauvais. His father helped him with his
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  Speaker 1: lessons at home, as he himself later on was accustomed
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  Speaker 1: to help his own children. He can never have been
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  Speaker 1: a model schoolboy, though he was always first in his class,
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  Speaker 1: and he ended his school career prematurely by quarreling with
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  Speaker 1: his master and bidding him a fond farewell. The cause
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  Speaker 1: of this quarrel throws a bright light on Peirout's subsequent career.
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  Speaker 1: He refused to accept his teacher's philosophical tenets on the
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  Speaker 1: mere ground of their traditional authority. He claimed that novelty
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  Speaker 1: was in itself a merit, and on this they parted.
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  Speaker 1: He did not go alone. One of his friends, a
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  Speaker 1: boy called Bourras, espoused his cause, and for the next
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  Speaker 1: three or four years the two read together haphazard in
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  Speaker 1: the Luxembourg Gardens. This plan of study had almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: a bad effect on Bolras, for we hear no more
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  Speaker 1: of him. It certainly prevented Perrault from being a thorough scholar,
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  Speaker 1: though it made him a man of taste, a sincere independent,
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  Speaker 1: and an undaunted amateur. In sixteen fifty one he took
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  Speaker 1: his degree at the University of Orleans, where degrees were
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  Speaker 1: given with scandalous readiness, payment of fees being the only
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  Speaker 1: essential preliminary. In the meantime, he'd walked the hospitals with
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  Speaker 1: some vague notion of following his brother Cloud into the
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  Speaker 1: prophet of medicine, and had played a small part as
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  Speaker 1: a theological controversialist in a quarrel then raging about the
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  Speaker 1: nature of grace between the Jesuits and the Jansenists. Having
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  Speaker 1: abandoned medicine and theology, he got called to the bar,
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  Speaker 1: practiced for a while with distinct success, and coquetted with
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  Speaker 1: a notion of codifying the laws of the realm. The
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  Speaker 1: bar proved too arrod a profession to engage for long
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  Speaker 1: his attention, so he next sort and found a place
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  Speaker 1: in the office of another brother, Pierre, who was chief
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  Speaker 1: commissioner of taxes in Paris. Here Perault had little to do,
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  Speaker 1: save to read at large in the excellent library which
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  Speaker 1: his brother had formed. For want of further occupation, he
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  Speaker 1: returned to the writing of Verse, one of the chief
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  Speaker 1: pleasures of his boyhood. His first sustained literary effort had
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  Speaker 1: been a parody of the sixth Book of the Eneid, which,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps fortunately for his reputation, was never published and has
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  Speaker 1: not survived. Bonars and his brother Nicholas, a doctor of
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  Speaker 1: the Sorbon, assisted him in his perpetration, and Cloud made
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  Speaker 1: the pennanink sketches with which it was illustrated. In a
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  Speaker 1: few years that had elapsed since the writing of this burlesque,
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  Speaker 1: Perrault had acquired more sense and taste, and his new poems,
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  Speaker 1: in particular the Portray de Ris and the Deo lor
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  Speaker 1: Rentileamur e Lemitier, were found charming bay his contemporaries. They
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  Speaker 1: were issued anonymously, and Quinaul, himself a poet of established reputation,
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  Speaker 1: used some of them to forward his suite with the
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  Speaker 1: young lady, allowing her to think that they were his own. Perrault,
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  Speaker 1: when told of Quenaul's pretensions, deemed it necessary to disclose
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  Speaker 1: his authorship, but on hearing of the use to which
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  Speaker 1: his work had been put, he gallantly remained in the background,
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  Speaker 1: forgave the fraud and made a friend of the culprit.
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  Speaker 1: Architecture next engaged his attention, and in sixteen fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: he designed a house at Villi for his brother and
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  Speaker 1: supervised its construction. Colbert approved so much of this performance
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  Speaker 1: that he employed him in the superintendence of the royal
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  Speaker 1: buildings and put him in special charge of Versailles, which
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  Speaker 1: was then in process of erection. Perrault flung himself with
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  Speaker 1: ardor into this work, though not to the exclusion of
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  Speaker 1: his other activities. He wrote odes in honor of the King.
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  Speaker 1: He planned designs for Gobelin tapestries and decorative paintings. He
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  Speaker 1: became a member of the select little Academy of Medals
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  Speaker 1: and Inscriptions, which Caledbert brought into being to devise suitable
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  Speaker 1: legends for the royal palaces and monuments. He encouraged musicians
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  Speaker 1: and fought the cause of Lulie. He joined with Cloud
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  Speaker 1: in a successful effort to found the Academy of Science.
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  Speaker 1: Cloud Perot had something of his brother's versatility and shared
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  Speaker 1: his love for architecture, and the two now became deeply
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  Speaker 1: interested in the various schemes which were mooted for the
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  Speaker 1: completion of the Louvers. Bernini was summoned by the king
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  Speaker 1: from Rome and entrusted with the task, but the brothers
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  Speaker 1: Pero intervened. Charled conceived the idea of the Great East
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  Speaker 1: Front and communicated it to Claude, who drew the plans
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  Speaker 1: and was commissioned to carry them out. The work was
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  Speaker 1: finished in sixteen seventy one and is still popularly known
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  Speaker 1: as Perol's Colonnade. In the same year, Charles was elected
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  Speaker 1: to the Academy, without any personal canvass on his part
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  Speaker 1: for the honor. His inaugural address was heard with such
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  Speaker 1: approval that he ventured to suggest that the inauguration of
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  Speaker 1: future members should be a public function. The suggestion was adopted,
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  Speaker 1: and these addresses became the most famous feature of the
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  Speaker 1: Academy's proceedings and are so to the present day. This
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  Speaker 1: was not his only service to the Academy, for he
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  Speaker 1: carried a motion to the effect that future elections should
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  Speaker 1: be by ballot, and invented and provided at his own
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  Speaker 1: expense a ballot box, which, though he does not describe it,
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  Speaker 1: was probably the model of those in use in all
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  Speaker 1: mone modern clubs and societies. The novelty of his views
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  Speaker 1: did not always commend them to his brother immortals. Those
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  Speaker 1: expressed in his poem Le Seigle de Luisquetors, which he
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  Speaker 1: read as an academician of sixteen years standing, initiated one
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  Speaker 1: of the most famous and lasting literary quarrels of the era. Perrault,
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  Speaker 1: in praising the writers of his own age, ventured to
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  Speaker 1: disparage some of the great authors of the ancient classics.
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  Speaker 1: Boileau lashed himself into a fury of opposition and hurled
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  Speaker 1: strident insults against the heretic rasin more adroit, pretended to
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  Speaker 1: think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony.
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  Speaker 1: Most men of letters hastened to participate in the battle.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt, Peroul's position was untenable, but he conducted his
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  Speaker 1: defense with perfect temper and much wit, And Boileau made
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  Speaker 1: himself not a little absurd by his violence and his
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  Speaker 1: obvious longing to display the extent of his learning. Perraul's
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  Speaker 1: case is finally stated in his four volumes Le Periles
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  Speaker 1: DESSENCEI Orzi de Madon, which were published in sixteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: eight to sixteen ninety six. He evidently took vastly more
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  Speaker 1: pride in this dull and now almost forgotten work than
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  Speaker 1: in the matchless stories which have made him famous forever.
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  Speaker 1: After twenty years in the service of Colbert, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Peroul's fortunes passed its zenith. His brother, the Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: of Taxes, had a dispute with the minister, and was disgraced.
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  Speaker 1: Then Peraul got married to a young lady of whom
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  Speaker 1: we know nothing except that her marriage was the subject
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  Speaker 1: of some opposition from his powerful employer. In a matter
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  Speaker 1: of the sort, Peraul, though a courtier, could be relied on,
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  Speaker 1: to consider no wishes save those of his future wife
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  Speaker 1: and himself. Colbert's own influence with the king became shaky,
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  Speaker 1: and this affected his temper. So Peraul, then just fifty five,
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  Speaker 1: slid quietly from his service. In the year sixteen eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating approaching for closing
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  Speaker 1: the Tuleries gardens against the people of Paris and their children.
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  Speaker 1: Colbert proposed to reserve them to the Royal use, but
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  Speaker 1: Perrault persuaded him to come there one day for a walk,
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  Speaker 1: showed him the citizens taking the air and playing with
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  Speaker 1: their children, got the gardeners to testify that these privileges
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  Speaker 1: were never abused, and carried his point by declaring finally
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  Speaker 1: that the king's pleasence was so spacious that there was
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  Speaker 1: room for all his children to walk there. Sainte Beuve,
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  Speaker 1: seventy years ago pleaded that this service to the children
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  Speaker 1: of Paris should be commemorated by a statue of Perrault
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  Speaker 1: in the center of the Tuileries. The statue has never
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  Speaker 1: been erected, and to the present day Paris so plentifully
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  Speaker 1: provided with statues and pictures of the great men of France,
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  Speaker 1: as neither the one nor the other to show that
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  Speaker 1: she appreciates the genius of Perrault. Indeed, there is no
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  Speaker 1: statue of him in existence, and the only painting of
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  Speaker 1: him with which I am acquainted is a doubtful one
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  Speaker 1: hung far away in an obscure corner of the Palace
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  Speaker 1: of Versailles. The close Appeau's official career marked the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of his period of greatest literary activity. In sixteen eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: he published his long narrative poem Saint paulin a vic de'neaux,
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  Speaker 1: with a Christian epistle upon penitence and an ode to
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  Speaker 1: the newly converted, which he dedicated to boss Suet. Between
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  Speaker 1: the years sixteen eighty eight and sixteen ninety six appeared
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  Speaker 1: the Peleles des sanciens de de madeon to which I
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  Speaker 1: have already referred. In sixteen ninety three he brought out
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  Speaker 1: his Cabinet de Borisarre, beautifully illustrated by engravings and containing
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  Speaker 1: a poem on painting which even Boileau condescended to admire.
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  Speaker 1: In sixteen ninety four he published his Apologis de fame.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote two comedies, Leublieu in sixteen ninety one and
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  Speaker 1: Les Fontages. They were not printed until eighteen sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: They added nothing to his reputation. Between sixteen ninety one
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  Speaker 1: and sixteen ninety seven were composed The Immortal Estois or
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  Speaker 1: Conte de de tomp Passer and The Comte don Veris.
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  Speaker 1: Toward the end of his life he busied himself with
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  Speaker 1: the Eluge desormes de leuistre de sixele de Louis Catus.
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  Speaker 1: The first of these two stately volumes came out in
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  Speaker 1: sixteen ninety six and the second in seventeen hundred. They
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  Speaker 1: were illustrated by one hundred and two excellent engravings, including
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  Speaker 1: one by Edelinck of Perrault himself and another of his
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  Speaker 1: brother Cloud. These biographies were written with kindly justice and
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  Speaker 1: from a valuable contribution to the history of the reign
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  Speaker 1: of the Rasa Lais. I have not exhausted the list
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  Speaker 1: of Perrault's writings, but to speak frankly, the rest are
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  Speaker 1: not worth mentioning. He died aged seventy five in seventeen
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  Speaker 1: o three, deservedly admired and regretted by all who knew him.
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  Speaker 1: This was not strange, for he was clever, honest, courteous,
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  Speaker 1: and witty. He did his duty to his family, his employer,
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  Speaker 1: his friends, and to the public at large. In an
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  Speaker 1: age of great men, but also of great prejudices, he
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  Speaker 1: fought his own way to fame and fortune. He served
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  Speaker 1: all the arts and practiced most of them painters, writers, sculptors, musicians,
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  Speaker 1: and men of science. All gladly made him free of
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  Speaker 1: their company as a good civil servant. He was no politician,
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  Speaker 1: and he showed no leaning what effort towards what was
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  Speaker 1: regarded in his time as the greatest of all professions,
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  Speaker 1: that of arms. These two deficiencies, if deficiencies they be,
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  Speaker 1: only endear him the more to us. Everyone likes a
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  Speaker 1: man who deserves to enjoy life, and does in fact
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. Perrault was such a man. He was more.
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  Speaker 1: He was the cause of enjoyment countless of his fellows,
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  Speaker 1: and his stories to promise enjoyment to countless others to come.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing to remember that Perrault was rather ashamed
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  Speaker 1: of his Estois Cornte de Tonte Passeier, perhaps better known
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  Speaker 1: as Le Conte de Marmellois or Mother Goose's Tales from
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  Speaker 1: the rough print, which was inserted as a frontispiece to
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  Speaker 1: the first collected edition in sixteen ninety seven. He would
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  Speaker 1: not even publish them in his own name. They were
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  Speaker 1: declared to be by Pi d'armancourt, Perrault's young son. In
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  Speaker 1: order that the secret might be well kept, Perrault a
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  Speaker 1: banded his usual publisher, Jugiart, and went to Barbars. The
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  Speaker 1: stories had previously appeared from time to time anonymously in
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  Speaker 1: Merchant's little magazine, The Recurieer, which was published from the
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  Speaker 1: Hague La Belle au Bois d'hur mont. Sleeping Beauty was
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  Speaker 1: the first, and in rapid succession followed Le Petits Chaperon
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  Speaker 1: Rouge Red Riding Hood, Le maitrocha U, La chaps Boti
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  Speaker 1: puss in boots Left, the Fairy sandrient U, La petit Pontouf,
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  Speaker 1: La da vere Cinderella rique A Leupes, Riquet of the Tuft,
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  Speaker 1: and Les Petits pousset tom Thumb. Pierot was not so
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  Speaker 1: shy in admitting the authorship of his three verse stories
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  Speaker 1: Grise eli Dis, Les suis ridicule and pour d'un. They
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  Speaker 1: first appeared anonymously, it is true, in sixteen ninety one,
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  Speaker 1: but when it came to be reprinted with Les Souis
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  Speaker 1: Ridicule and Pour Dun in sixteen ninety five, they were
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  Speaker 1: entrusted to the firm of Quiyard and described as being
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  Speaker 1: by Monsieur Peront de la Academie. Francois la Fontaine had
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  Speaker 1: made a fashion of this sort of exercise. It would
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  Speaker 1: not be fair to assume that p Damancour had no
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  Speaker 1: connection whatever with the composition of the stories which bore
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  Speaker 1: his name. The best of Pierot's critic Paul de Saint
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  Speaker 1: Victor and Andrew Lange, among others, see in the book
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  Speaker 1: a marvelous collaboration of crabbed age and youth. The boy
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  Speaker 1: probably gathered the stories from his nurse and brought them
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  Speaker 1: to his father, who touched them up and toned them
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  Speaker 1: down and wrote them out. Paul le Cras, in his
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  Speaker 1: fine edition of eighteen eighty six, goes as far as
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  Speaker 1: to attribute the entire authorship of the prose tales to
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  Speaker 1: Perel's son. He deferred, however, to universal usage when he
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  Speaker 1: entitled his volumes Le com enprause de chele perint le
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  Speaker 1: comte de tomp parser had an immediate success. Imitators sprung
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  Speaker 1: up at once by the dozen, and still persist, but
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  Speaker 1: none of them has ever rivaled, much less surpassed, the
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  Speaker 1: inimitable originals. Every few years a new and sumptuous edition
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  Speaker 1: appears in France. The best are probably those by Paul
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  Speaker 1: lacra An Andre la Fere. The story soon crossed the Channel,
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  Speaker 1: and a translation by mister Samber, printed for J. Pote,
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  Speaker 1: was advertised in the Monthly Chronicle of seventeen twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Samber was presumably one Robert Samber of New Inn,
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  Speaker 1: who translated other tales from the French for Edmund curl,
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  Speaker 1: the bookseller about this time. No copy of the first
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  Speaker 1: edition of his Pierot is known to exist, yet it
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  Speaker 1: won a wide popularity, as is shown by the fact
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  Speaker 1: that there was a seventh edition published in seventeen ninety
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  Speaker 1: five for J. Rivington, a bookseller of Pearl Street, New York.
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  Speaker 1: No English translation of Pierot's fairy Tales has attained unquestioned
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  Speaker 1: literary pre eminence, so the publishers of the present book
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  Speaker 1: have thought it best to use Samber's translation, which has
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  Speaker 1: a special interest of its own in being almost contemporary
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  Speaker 1: with the original. The text has been thoroughly revised and
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  Speaker 1: corrected by mister J. E. Manchon, who has purged it
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  Speaker 1: of many errors without detracting from its old fashioned quality.
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  Speaker 1: To mister Manchon also is due the credit for the
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  Speaker 1: translation of Les Suis a Ridicule and for the adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of Poor dar Rizelidis is excluded from his book for
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  Speaker 1: two good reasons. Firstly because it is an admitted borrowing
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  Speaker 1: by Peror from Bercaccio, and secondly because it is not
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  Speaker 1: a fairy tale in the true sense of the word.
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  Speaker 1: It is perhaps unnecessary for me to add anything about
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  Speaker 1: mister Clark's illustrations. Many of the readers of this book
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  Speaker 1: will be already familiar with his work. Besides, I always
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  Speaker 1: feel that it is an impertinence to describe pictures in
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  Speaker 1: their presence. Mister Clark's speak for themselves. They speak for
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  Speaker 1: Perol too. It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters
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  Speaker 1: so thoroughly into the spirit of his text. The grace, delicacy, urbanity,
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  Speaker 1: tenderness and humour which went to the making of Pierot's
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  Speaker 1: stories must, it seems, have also gone in somewhat similar
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  Speaker 1: proportions to the making of these delightful drawings. I am
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  Speaker 1: sure that they would have given pleasure to beat himself.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Bodkin, end of section zero. Introduction Section one of.
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  Speaker 2: Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Charles Perraut, translated by
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  Speaker 2: Robert Samber and j E. Mansion Little Red riding Hood.
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  Speaker 2: Once upon a time they lived in a certain village.
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  Speaker 2: A little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Her mother was excessively fond of her, and her grandmother
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  Speaker 2: doted on her much more. This good woman got made
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  Speaker 2: for her a little red riding hood, which became the
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  Speaker 2: girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red
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  Speaker 2: riding Hood. One day, her mother, having made some grid cakes,
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  Speaker 2: said to her, go, my dear, and see how thy
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  Speaker 2: grandmamma does. For I hear she has been very ill.
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  Speaker 2: Carry her a griddle cake and this little pot of butter.
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  Speaker 2: Little Red riding Hood set out immediately to go to
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  Speaker 2: her grandmother, who lived in another village. As she was
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  Speaker 2: going through the wood, she met with gaffer wolf, who
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  Speaker 2: had a very great mind to eat her up, but
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  Speaker 2: he durst not because of some faggot makers hide by
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  Speaker 2: in the forest. He asked whither she was going. The
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  Speaker 2: poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous
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  Speaker 2: to stay and hear a wolf talk, said to him,
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  Speaker 2: I am going.
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  Speaker 3: To see my grandmamma and carry her a griddle cake
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  Speaker 3: and a little pot of butter.
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  Speaker 2: From my mamma, does she live far off? Said the wolf. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I answered the little red riding hood.
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  Speaker 3: It is beyond that mill you see there, and at
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  Speaker 3: the first house in the village.
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  Speaker 2: Well said the wolf, And I'll go and see her too.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go this way, and you go that, and we
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  Speaker 2: shall see who will be there. Soonest. The wolf began
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  Speaker 2: to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way,
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  Speaker 2: and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting
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  Speaker 2: herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegaze
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  Speaker 2: of such little flowers as she met with the wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Was not long before he got to the old woman's house.
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  Speaker 2: He knocked at the door, tap tap, who's there.
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  Speaker 3: Your grandchild, little red riding.
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  Speaker 2: Hood, replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice.
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  Speaker 4: Who has brought you a griddle cake and a little
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  Speaker 4: pot of butter, sent you by mamma. The good grandmother,
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  Speaker 4: who was in bed because she found herself somewhat ill,
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  Speaker 4: cried out, pull the peg and the boat will fall.
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  Speaker 2: The wolf pulled the peg and the door opened, and
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  Speaker 2: then presently he fell upon the good woman and ate
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  Speaker 2: her up in a moment, For it was above three
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  Speaker 2: days that he had not touched a bit. He then
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  Speaker 2: shut the door and went into the grandmother's bed, expecting
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  Speaker 2: Little Red Riding Hood, who came some time after woods
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  Speaker 2: and knocked at the door, Tap tap, who's there. Little
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  Speaker 2: Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf,
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  Speaker 2: was at first afraid, but believing her grandmother had got
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  Speaker 2: a cold and was hoarse, answered, tis.
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  Speaker 3: Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood, who has brought you
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  Speaker 3: a griddle cake and a little pot of butter. Mamma
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  Speaker 3: sends you.
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  Speaker 2: The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice. As
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  Speaker 2: much as he could, pull the peg and the bolt
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  Speaker 2: will fall. Little Red Riding Hood pulled the peg and
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  Speaker 2: the door opened. The wolf, seeing her come in, said
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  Speaker 2: to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, put the cake
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  Speaker 2: and the little pot of butter under the bread bin,
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  Speaker 2: and come and lie down with me. Little Red Riding
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Hood ndressed herself and went into the bed. We're being
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: night clothes. She said to her grandmamma, what great arms
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  Speaker 2: you've got, that is the better to hug thee My
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: dear grandmamma, what great legs you have got that is
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  Speaker 2: to run the better my child, grandmamma, What great ears
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: you have got that is to hear the better my child, grandmamma,
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  Speaker 2: What great eyes you have got it is to see
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the better my child, grandmamma, What great teeth you have
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  Speaker 2: got that is to eat thee up and saying these words,
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  Speaker 2: this wicked wolf fell upon poor little red riding hood
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  Speaker 2: and ate her all up. The moral from this short
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: story easy, we discern what conduct all young people ought
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  Speaker 2: to learn. But above all young growing missus fair whose
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: orient rosy blooms begin to appear, Who beauties in the
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: fragrant spring of age, with pretty airs, Young hearts are
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: apt to engage. I'll do they listen to all sorts
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: of tongues, said some enchant in lawlike siren songs. No
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: wonder therefore tis if overpowered so many of them has
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the wolf devoured the wolf? I say for wolves too, Oh,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: there are of every sort in every character, Some of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: them mild and gentle, humored, be of noise and gall
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and rancor wholly free, who tame familiar, full of complaisance,
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  Speaker 2: olgall and lear, languish, cajole and glance with luring tongues
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and language. Wondrous suite follow young ladies as they walk
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  Speaker 2: the street, even to their very houses, nay bedside and
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: artful though their true designs they hide. Yet ah, these
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: simpering wolves, who does not see most dangerous of wolves,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: indeed they be, and of little red riding hood.
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  Speaker 5: Section two of The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. This
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  Speaker 5: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 5: of Charles Perrault by Charles Earls Perot, translated by Robert
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  Speaker 5: Samber and J. E. Mansion. Section two the Fairy There
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  Speaker 5: was once upon a time a widow who had two daughters.
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  Speaker 5: The eldest was so much like her in the face
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  Speaker 5: and humor, that whoever looked upon the daughter saw the mother.
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  Speaker 5: They were both so disagreeable and so proud, that there
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  Speaker 5: was no living with them. The youngest, who was the
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  Speaker 5: very picture of her father for courtesy and sweetness of temper,
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  Speaker 5: was withal one of the most beautiful girls ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: As people naturally love their own likeness, This mother even
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  Speaker 5: doated on her eldest daughter, and at the same time
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: had a horrible aversion. For the youngest she made her
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: eat in the kitchen and work continually. Among other things,
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: this poor child was forced twice a day to draw
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: water above a mile and a half off the house
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: and bring home a picture full of it. One day,
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  Speaker 5: as she was at this fountain, there came to her
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  Speaker 5: a poor woman who begged of her to let her drink.
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  Speaker 6: Oh ay, with all my heart, goody.
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  Speaker 5: Said this pretty maid, and rinsing immediately the pitcher, She
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  Speaker 5: took up some water from the clearest place of the
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  Speaker 5: fountain and gave it to her, holding up the pitcher
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  Speaker 5: all the while that she might drink the easier. The
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  Speaker 5: good woman, having drank, said to her, you are so
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  Speaker 5: very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that
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  Speaker 5: I cannot help giving you a gift. For this was
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  Speaker 5: a fairy who had taken the form of a poor
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  Speaker 5: country woman to see how far the civility and good
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  Speaker 5: manners of this pretty girl would go. I will give
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  Speaker 5: you for gift, continued the fairy, that at every word
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  Speaker 5: you speak, there shall come out of your mouth either
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  Speaker 5: a flower or a jewel. When this pretty girl came home,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: her mother scolded at her for staying so long at
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: the fountain. I beg your pardon, Mamma, said the poor girl,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: for not making more haste. And in speaking these words,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: there came out of her mouth two roses, two pearls,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: and two diamonds. What is this I see, said her mother,
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  Speaker 5: quite astonished. I think I see pearls and diamonds come
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: out of the girl's mouth. How happens this child? This
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  Speaker 5: was the first time she ever called her child. The
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  Speaker 5: poor creature told her frankly all the matter, not without
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  Speaker 5: dropping out infinite numbers of diamonds. In good faith, cried
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  Speaker 5: the mother. I must send my child thither. Come hither, Fanny.
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  Speaker 5: Look what comes out of thy sister's mouth when she speaks.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldst not thou be glad, my dear, to have the
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  Speaker 5: same gift given to thee. Thou hast nothing else to
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  Speaker 5: do but go and draw water out of the fountain.
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  Speaker 5: And when a certain poor woman asks thee to let
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  Speaker 5: her drink, to give it her very civilly. It would
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  Speaker 5: be a fine sight, indeed, said this ill bred minx,
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  Speaker 5: to see me go draw water. You shall go hussy,
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  Speaker 5: said the mother, And this minute so away she went,
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  Speaker 5: but grumbling all the way, taking with her the best
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  Speaker 5: silver tankard in the house. She It was no sooner
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  Speaker 5: at the fountain than she saw coming out of the
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  Speaker 5: wood a lady most gloriously dressed, who came up to
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  Speaker 5: her and asked to drink. This was, you must know,
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  Speaker 5: the very fairy who appeared to her sister, but had
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  Speaker 5: now taken the air and dress of a princess to
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  Speaker 5: see how far this girl's rudeness would go. Am I
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  Speaker 5: come hither, said the proud saucy slut, to serve you
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  Speaker 5: with water.
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  Speaker 7: Pray.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose the silver tankard was brought purely for your ladyship,
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  Speaker 5: was it? However, you may drink out of it if
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  Speaker 5: you have a fancy. You are not over and above mannerly,
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  Speaker 5: said the fairy, without putting herself in a passion. Well, then,
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  Speaker 5: since you have so little breeding and are so disobliging,
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  Speaker 5: I give you for gift that at every word you speak,
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  Speaker 5: there shall come out of your mouth a snake or
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: a toad. So as soon as her mother saw her coming,
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  Speaker 5: she cried out, well daughter, Well, mother, answered the pert hussy,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: throwing out of her her mouth two vipers and two toads.
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  Speaker 5: Oh mercy, cried the mother, what is it I see? Oh,
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  Speaker 5: it is that wretch her sister, who has occasioned all this.
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  Speaker 5: But she shall pay for it, And immediately she ran
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  Speaker 5: to beat her. The poor child fled away from her
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  Speaker 5: and went to hide herself in the forest not far
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  Speaker 5: from thence the king's son, then, on his return from hunting,
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  Speaker 5: met her, and, seeing her so very pretty, asked her
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  Speaker 5: what she did there alone and why She cried, alas, sir,
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  Speaker 5: my Mamma has turned me out of doors. The king's son,
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  Speaker 5: who saw five or six pearls and as many diamonds
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  Speaker 5: come out of her mouth, desired her to tell him
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  Speaker 5: how that happened. She thereupon told him the whole story,
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  Speaker 5: And so the king's son fell in love with her, and,
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  Speaker 5: considering with himself that such a gift was worth more
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  Speaker 5: than any marriage portion whatsoever in another, conducted her to
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  Speaker 5: the palace of the king his father, and there married her.
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  Speaker 5: As for her sister, she made herself so much hated
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  Speaker 5: that her own mother turned her off, And the miserable wretch,
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  Speaker 5: having wandered about a good while without finding anybody to
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  Speaker 5: take her in, went to a corner in the wood,
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  Speaker 5: and there died the moral, money and jewels. Still we
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  Speaker 5: find stamps strong impressions on the mind, but sweet discourse
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  Speaker 5: more potent riches yields. Of higher value is the power
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  Speaker 5: it wields. Another civil behavior costs. Indeed, some pains, requires
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  Speaker 5: of complaisance, some little share, But soon or late its
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  Speaker 5: due rewarded gains and meets it often when we're not aware.
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  Speaker 5: End of the Fairy.
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  Speaker 7: Section three of The Fairy Tales of Charles Burrough. This
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  Speaker 7: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 7: of Charles Perrau by Charles Pureau, translated by Robert Samber
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  Speaker 7: and J. E. Manson. Section three blue Beard. There was
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  Speaker 7: a man who had fine houses, both in town and country,
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  Speaker 7: a deal of silver and gold, plate, embroidered furniture, and
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  Speaker 7: coaches gilded all over with gold. But this man had
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  Speaker 7: the misfortune to have a blue beard, which made him
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  Speaker 7: so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran
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  Speaker 7: away from him. One of his neighbors. A lady of
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  Speaker 7: quality had two daughters who were perfect beauties. He desired
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  Speaker 7: of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her
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  Speaker 7: the choice which of the two she would bestow upon him.
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  Speaker 7: They would neither of them have him, and each made
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  Speaker 7: the other welcome of him, being not able to bear
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  Speaker 7: the thought of Maryayring a man who had a blue beard,
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  Speaker 7: And what besides gave them disgust and aversion was his,
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  Speaker 7: having already been married to several wives, and nobody ever
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  Speaker 7: knew what became of them. Blue Beard to engage their affection,
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  Speaker 7: took them, with a lady their mother, and three or
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  Speaker 7: four ladies of their acquaintance with other young people of
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  Speaker 7: the neighborhood, to one of his country seats, where they
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  Speaker 7: stayed a whole week. There was nothing then to be
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  Speaker 7: seen but parties of pleasure, hunting, fishing, dancing, mirth, and feasting.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in
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  Speaker 7: playing tricks upon each other. In short, everything succeeded so
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  Speaker 7: well that the youngest daughter began to think the master
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  Speaker 7: of the house not to have a beard so very blue,
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  Speaker 7: and that he was a mighty civil gentleman. As soon
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  Speaker 7: as they returned home. The marriage was concluded. About a
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  Speaker 7: month afterwards, blue Beard told his wife that he was
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  Speaker 7: obliged to take a country journey for six weeks at
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  Speaker 7: least about a affairs of very great consequence, desiring her
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  Speaker 7: to divert herself in his absence, to send for her
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: friends and acquaintances, to carry them into the country if
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  Speaker 7: she pleased, and to make good cheer wherever she was. Here,
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  Speaker 7: said he are the keys of the two great wardrobes,
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  Speaker 7: wherein I have my best furniture. These are of my
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  Speaker 7: silver and gold plate, which is not every day in use.
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  Speaker 7: These open my strong boxes which hold my money, both
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  Speaker 7: gold and silver. These my caskets of jewels. And this
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  Speaker 7: is the master key to all my apartments. But for
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  Speaker 7: this little one here, it is the key of the
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  Speaker 7: closet at the end of the great gallery on the
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  Speaker 7: ground floor. Open them all, go into all, and every
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  Speaker 7: one of them. Accept that little closet which I forbid you,
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  Speaker 7: and forbid it in such a manner that if you
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  Speaker 7: happen to open it there will be no bounds to
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  Speaker 7: my just anger and resentment. She promised to observe very
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  Speaker 7: exactly whatever he had ordered. When he after having embraced her,
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  Speaker 7: got into his coach and proceeded on his journey. Her
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  Speaker 7: neighbors and good friends did not stay to be sent
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  Speaker 7: for by the new married lady. So great was their
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  Speaker 7: impatience to see all the rich furniture of her house,
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  Speaker 7: Not daring to come while her husband was there because
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  Speaker 7: of his blue beard, which frightened them, they ran through
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  Speaker 7: all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so
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  Speaker 7: rich and fine that they seemed to surpass one another.
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  Speaker 7: After that they went up into the two great rooms,
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  Speaker 7: where were the best and richest furniture. They could not
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  Speaker 7: sufficiently admire the number and beauty of the tapestry, beds, couches, cabinets, stands, tables,
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  Speaker 7: and looking glasses in which you might see yourself from
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  Speaker 7: head to foot. Some of them were framed with glass,
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  Speaker 7: others with silver, plain and gilded, the finest and most
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  Speaker 7: magnificent which were ever seen. They ceased not to extol
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  Speaker 7: and envy the happiness of their friend, who, in the
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  Speaker 7: meantime no way diverted herself in looking upon all these
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  Speaker 7: rich things. Because of the impatience, she had to go
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  Speaker 7: and open in the closet on the ground floor she
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  Speaker 7: was so much pressed by her curiosity that, without considering
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  Speaker 7: that it was very uncivil to leave her company, she
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  Speaker 7: went down a little back staircase, and with such excessive
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  Speaker 7: haste that she had twice or thrice liked to have
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  Speaker 7: broken her neck. Being come to the closet door, she
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  Speaker 7: made a stop for some time, thinking upon her husband's orders,
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  Speaker 7: and considering what unhappiness might attend her if she was disobedient.
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  Speaker 7: But the temptation was so strong she could not overcome it.
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  Speaker 7: She took then the little key and opened it trembling,
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  Speaker 7: but could not at first see anything plainly, because the
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  Speaker 7: windows were shut. After some moments, she began to perceive
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  Speaker 7: that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood,
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  Speaker 7: in which were reflected the bodies of several dead women
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  Speaker 7: ranged against the walls. These were all the wives whom
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  Speaker 7: blue Beard had married and murdered, one after another. She
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  Speaker 7: was like to have died for fear, and the key,
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  Speaker 7: which she pulled out of the lock, fell out of
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  Speaker 7: her head. After having somewhat recovered her senses, she took
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  Speaker 7: up the key, locked the door, and went upstairs into
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  Speaker 7: her chamber to recover herself. But she could not so
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  Speaker 7: much was she frightened. Having observed that the key of
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  Speaker 7: the closet was stained with blood. She tried two or
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  Speaker 7: three times to wipe it off, but the blood would
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  Speaker 7: not come off. In vain did she wash it, and
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  Speaker 7: even rub it with soap and sand, the blood still remained,
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  Speaker 7: for the key was a fairy, and she could never
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  Speaker 7: make it quite clean. When the blood was gone off
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  Speaker 7: from one side, it came again on the other. Blue
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  Speaker 7: Beard returned from his journey the same evening and said
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  Speaker 7: he had received letters upon the road informing him that
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  Speaker 7: the affair he went about was ended to his advantage.
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  Speaker 7: His wife did all she could to convince him. She
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  Speaker 7: was extremely glad of his speedy return. Next morning, he
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  Speaker 7: asked her for the keys, which she gave him, but
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  Speaker 7: with such a trembling hand that he easily guessed what
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  Speaker 7: had happened. What said, he is not the key of
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  Speaker 7: my closet A the rest I must certainly answered, She
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  Speaker 7: have left it above upon the table. Fail not, said
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  Speaker 7: blue Beard, to bring it me presently, After putting him
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  Speaker 7: off several times, she was forced to bring him the key.
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  Speaker 7: Blue Beard, having very attentively considered it, said to his wife,
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  Speaker 7: how comes this blood? Upon the key. I do not know,
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  Speaker 7: cried the poor woman, paler than death. You do not know,
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  Speaker 7: replied blue Beard. I very well know you were resolved
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  Speaker 7: to go into the closet, were you not mighty well, madame,
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  Speaker 7: you shall go in and take your place among the
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: ladies you saw there. Upon this, she threw herself at
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: her husband's feet and begged his pardon with all the
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  Speaker 7: signs of a true repentance for her disobedience. She would
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: But blue Beard had a heart harder than any rock.
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  Speaker 7: You must die, madame, said he, and that presently since
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  Speaker 7: I must die, answered she, looking upon him with her
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  Speaker 7: eyes all bathed in tears. Give me some little time
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  Speaker 7: to say my prayers. I give you, replied blue Beard.
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  Speaker 7: Half a quarter of an hour, but not one moment more.
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  Speaker 7: When she was gone, she called out to her sister
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  Speaker 7: and said to her sister Anne, for that was her name,
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  Speaker 7: go up, I beg you upon the top of the tower,
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  Speaker 7: and look if my brothers are not coming. They promised
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  Speaker 7: me that they would come to day, And if you
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  Speaker 7: see them, give them a sign to make haste. Her
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  Speaker 7: sister Anne went up upon the top of the tower,
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  Speaker 7: and the poor afflicted wife cried out from time to time, Anne,
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  Speaker 7: sister Anne, do you see any one coming? And sister
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  Speaker 7: Anne said, I see nothing but the sun which makes
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  Speaker 7: a dust, and the grass growing green. In the Meanwhile,
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: blue Beard, holding a great scimitar in his hand, cried
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  Speaker 7: out as loud as he could bawl to his wife.
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  Speaker 7: Come down instantly, or I shall come up to you
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  Speaker 7: one moment longer, if you please, said his wife, and
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  Speaker 7: then she cried out very softly, Anne, sister Anne, dost
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  Speaker 7: thou see anybody coming? And sister Anne answered, I see
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  Speaker 7: nothing but the sun which makes a dust and the
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  Speaker 7: grass growing green. Come down quickly, cried blue Beard. Or
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  Speaker 7: I will come up to you. I am coming, answered
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  Speaker 7: his wife, and then she cried, Anne, sister Anne, dost
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  Speaker 7: thou see any one coming? I see, replied sister Anne,
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  Speaker 7: A great dust that comes this way? Are they my brothers?
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  Speaker 8: Alas?
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  Speaker 7: No, my dear sister, I see a flock of sheep.
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  Speaker 7: Will you not come down, cried blue Beard. One moment longer,
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  Speaker 7: said his wife, and then she cried out, Anne, sister Anne,
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  Speaker 7: dost thou see nobody coming?
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  Speaker 8: I see?
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  Speaker 7: Said she two horsemen coming, but they are yet a
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  Speaker 7: great way off. God be praised, she cried. Presently they
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  Speaker 7: are my brothers. I am beckoning to them as well
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  Speaker 7: as I can for them to make haste. Then blue
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  Speaker 7: Beard bawled out so loud that he made the whole
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  Speaker 7: house tremble. The distressed wife came down and threw herself
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  Speaker 7: at his feet, all in tears, with her hair about
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  Speaker 7: her shoulders. Nought, will Avail said blue Beard, you must die. Then,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: taking hold of her hair with one hand and lifting
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  Speaker 7: up the scimitar with the other, he was going to
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  Speaker 7: take off her head. The poor lady, turning about to
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  Speaker 7: him and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him
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  Speaker 7: to afford her one little moment to recollect herself. No, no,
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  Speaker 7: said he recommend thyself to God, and was just ready
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  Speaker 7: to strike. At this very instant, there was such a
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  Speaker 7: loud knocking at the gate that blue Beard made a
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  Speaker 7: sudden stop. The gate was opened, and presently entered two horsemen, who,
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  Speaker 7: drawing their swords, ran directly to blue Beard. He knew
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  Speaker 7: them to be his wife's brothers, one a dragoon, the
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  Speaker 7: other a musketeer, so that he ran away immediately to
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  Speaker 7: save himself, but the two brothers pursued so close that
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  Speaker 7: they overtook him before he could get to the steps
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  Speaker 7: of the porch. When they ran their swords through his
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: body and left him dead, the poor wife was almost
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  Speaker 7: as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough
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  Speaker 7: to rise and welcome her brothers. Blue Beard had no heirs,
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: and so his wife became mistress of all his estate.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: She made use of one part of it to marry
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: her a long while, another part to buy captain's commissions
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: a very worthy gentleman who made her forget the ill
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: time she had passed with blue Beard. The moral o curiosity,
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: Thou mortal bane, spite of thy charms, Thou causest often
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  Speaker 7: pain and sore regret, of which we daily find a
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: thousand instances attend mankind for thou, Oh, may it not
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  Speaker 7: displease the fair A fleeting pleasure art, but lasting care
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  Speaker 7: and always proves a last too dear the prize, which,
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: in the moment of possession dies another a very little
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  Speaker 7: share of common sense and knowledge of the world will
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: soon evince that this a story is of time long past.
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  Speaker 7: No husbands now such panic terrors cast nor weakly with
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: a vain, despotic hand, imperious what's impossible? Command and be
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: they discontented or the fire of wicked jealousy, their hearts inspire.
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  Speaker 7: They softly sing, And of whatever hue their beards may
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: chance to be, or black or blue, grizzled or russet,
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  Speaker 7: it is hard to say which of the two the
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: man or wife bear sway. End of blue Beard. Recording
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  Speaker 7: by Ronald shot Giddings, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Section four of The Fairy Tales of Chauperot. This is
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  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in a public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by algiepug The Fairy Tales of chaud Perot by
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  Speaker 1: Chaud Perot, translated by Robert Samba and J. E. Mansion.
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  Speaker 1: Section four, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. There were
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  Speaker 1: formerly a king and a queen who were so sorry
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  Speaker 1: that they had no children, so sorry that it cannot
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  Speaker 1: be expressed. They went to all the waters in the world,
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  Speaker 1: vows pilgrimages all ways for tried, and all to no purpose.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: At last, however, the queen proved with child and was
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  Speaker 1: brought to bed of a daughter. There was a very
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  Speaker 1: fine christening, and the princess had for her godmothers all
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  Speaker 1: the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom. They
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  Speaker 1: found seven, that every one of them might give her
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  Speaker 1: a gift, as was the custom of fairies in those days,
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  Speaker 1: and that by this means the princess might have all
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  Speaker 1: the perfections imaginable. After the ceremonies of the christening were
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: over all, the company returned to the king's palace, where
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  Speaker 1: was prepared a great feast for the fairies. There was
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with
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  Speaker 1: a case of mass of gold, wherein were a spoon, knife,
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  Speaker 1: and fork, all of pure gold, set with diamonds and rubies.
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  Speaker 1: But as they were all sitting down at table, they
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  Speaker 1: saw come into the hall a very old fairy, whom
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  Speaker 1: they had not invited, because it was above fifty years
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  Speaker 1: since she had been out of a certain tower, and
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  Speaker 1: she was believed to be either dead or enchanted. The
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  Speaker 1: king ordered her a cover, but could not furnish her
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  Speaker 1: with a case of gold. As the others, because they
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  Speaker 1: had seven only made for the seven fairies. The old
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  Speaker 1: fairy fancied, she was slighted and muttered some threat between
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  Speaker 1: her teeth. One of the young fairies who sat by
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  Speaker 1: her overheard how she grumbled, and, judging that she might
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  Speaker 1: give the little princess some unlucky gift, went as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they rose from the table, and hid herself behind
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  Speaker 1: the hangings, that she might speak last and repair as
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  Speaker 1: much as possible she could, the evil which the old
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  Speaker 1: fairy might intend in the Meanwhile, all the fairies began
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  Speaker 1: to give their gifts to the princess. The youngest gave
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  Speaker 1: her for gift that she should be the most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: person in the world, the next that she should have
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  Speaker 1: the wit of an angel, the third that she should
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  Speaker 1: have a wonderful grace in everything she did, the fourth
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  Speaker 1: that she should dance perfectly well, the fifth that she
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  Speaker 1: should sing like a nightingale, and the sixth that she
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  Speaker 1: should play upon all kinds of music to the utmost perfection.
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  Speaker 1: The old Fairy's turn, coming next. With a head shaking
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  Speaker 1: more with spite than age, she said that the princess
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  Speaker 1: should have her hand pierced with a spindle and die
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  Speaker 1: of the wound. This terrible gift made the whole company tremble,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody fell a crying. At this very instant, the
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  Speaker 1: young Fairy came out from behind the hangings and spake
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  Speaker 1: these words aloud. Be assured, O, King it Queen, your
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  Speaker 1: daughter shall not die of this disaster. It is true,
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  Speaker 1: I have no power to undo entirely what my elder
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  Speaker 1: has done. The princess shall indeed piss her hand with
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  Speaker 1: a spindle, but instead of dying, she shall only fall
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  Speaker 1: into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years,
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  Speaker 1: at the expiration of which a king's son shall come
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  Speaker 1: and awake her. The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold
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  Speaker 1: by the old fairy, caused immediately proclamations to be made,
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  Speaker 1: whereby everybody was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin
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  Speaker 1: with a distaff and spindle, or to have so much
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  Speaker 1: as any spindle in their houses. About fifteen or sixteen
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  Speaker 1: years after the King and Queen being gone to one
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  Speaker 1: of their houses of pleasure, the young princess happened one
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  Speaker 1: day to divert herself running up and down the palace.
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  Speaker 1: When going up from one apartment to another, she came
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  Speaker 1: into a little room on the top of a tower,
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  Speaker 1: where a good old woman alone was spinning with her spindle.
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  Speaker 1: This good woman had never heard of the king's proclamation
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  Speaker 1: against spindles. What are you doing there, goody, said the princess.
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  Speaker 1: I am spinning, my pretty child, said the old woman,
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  Speaker 1: who did not know who she was. Hah, said the princess,
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  Speaker 1: this is very pretty.
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  Speaker 8: How do you do it?
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  Speaker 1: Give it to me that I may see if ay
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  Speaker 1: can do so. She had no sooner taken the spindle
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  Speaker 1: into her hand than whether being very hasty at it
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  Speaker 1: somewhat unhandy, or that the decree of the fairy had
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  Speaker 1: so ordained it. It ran into her hand, and she
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  Speaker 1: fell down in a swoon. The good old woman, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing very well what to do in this affair, cried
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  Speaker 1: out for help. People came in from every quarter in
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  Speaker 1: great numbers. They threw water upon the princess's face, unlaced her,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: struck her on the palms of her hands, and rubbed
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  Speaker 1: her temples with hungry water. But nothing would bring her
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: to herself. And now the king, who came up at
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  Speaker 1: the noise bethought himself of the prediction of the fairies,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: and judging very well that this must necessarily come to pass,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: since the fairies had said it caused the princess to
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: be carried into the finest apartment in his palace, and
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  Speaker 1: to be laid upon a bed all embroidered with gold
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  Speaker 1: and silver. One would have taken her for an angel.
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  Speaker 1: She was so very beautiful, for her swooning away had
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  Speaker 1: not diminished one bit of her complexion. Her cheeks were carnation,
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  Speaker 1: and her lips like coral. Indeed, her eyes were shut,
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  Speaker 1: but she was heard to breathe softly, which satisfied those
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  Speaker 1: about her that she was not dead. The king commanded
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  Speaker 1: that they should not disturb her, but let her sleep
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  Speaker 1: quietly till her hour of awakening was come. The good Fairy,
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  Speaker 1: who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep
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  Speaker 1: a hundred years, was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: thousand leagues off when this accident befell the princess, But
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  Speaker 1: she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf
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  Speaker 1: who had boots of seven leagues, that is, boots with
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  Speaker 1: which she could tread over seven leagues of ground at
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  Speaker 1: one stride. The fairy came away immediately, and she arrived
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  Speaker 1: about an hour after in a fiery chariot drawn by dragons.
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  Speaker 1: The King handed her out of the chariot, and she
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: approved everything he had done. But as she had a
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: very great foresight, she thought, when the princess should awake,
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  Speaker 1: she might not know what to do with herself, being
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  Speaker 1: all alone in this old palace.
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  Speaker 8: And this was what she did.
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  Speaker 1: She touched with her wand everything in the palace except
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  Speaker 1: the King and the queen, governesses, maids of honor, ladies
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  Speaker 1: of the bed, chamber, gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, under cooks, scullions,
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  Speaker 1: guards with their beef, eaters, pages footmen. She likewise touched
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  Speaker 1: all the horses which were in the stables, as well
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  Speaker 1: as their grooms, the great dogs in the outward court,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: and pretty little Mopsey too, the princesses spaniel bitch, which
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: lay by her on the bed. Immediately upon her touching them,
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  Speaker 1: they all fell as sleep, that they might not awake
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  Speaker 1: before their mistress, and that they might be ready to
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  Speaker 1: wait upon her when she wanted them. The very spits
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  Speaker 1: of the fire, as full as they could hold of
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  Speaker 1: partridges and pheasants, did fall asleep, and the fire likewise
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: all this was done in a moment. Fairies are not
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: long in doing their business. And now the King and
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the Queen, having kissed their dear child without waking her,
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  Speaker 1: went out of the palace and put forth a proclamation
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: that nobody should dare to come near it. This, however,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: was not necessary, for in a quarter of an hour's time,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: there grew up all round about the park such a
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: twining one within another, that neither man nor beast could
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  Speaker 1: pass through, so that nothing could be seen but the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: very top of the towers of the palace, and that too,
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  Speaker 1: not unless it was a good way off. Nobody doubted,
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  Speaker 1: but the the fairy gave here in a sample of
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  Speaker 1: her art, that the princess, while she continued sleeping, might
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  Speaker 1: have nothing to fear from any curious people. When a
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  Speaker 1: hundred years was gone and passed, the son of the
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: king then reigning, and who was of another family from
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  Speaker 1: that of the sleeping princess, being gone, a hunting on
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  Speaker 1: that side of the country, asked what were those towers
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  Speaker 1: which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone answered according as they had heard. Some said that
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  Speaker 1: it was a ruinous old castle haunted by spirits. Others
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  Speaker 1: that all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept
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  Speaker 1: there their sabbath or knight's meeting. The common opinion was
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  Speaker 1: that an ogre lived there, and that he carried thither
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  Speaker 1: all the little children he could catch, that he might
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  Speaker 1: eat them up at his leisure without anybody's being able
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  Speaker 1: to follow him, as having himself only the power to
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  Speaker 1: pass through the wood. Footnote one ogre is a giant
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  Speaker 1: with long teeth and claws, with a raw head and
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  Speaker 1: bloody bones, who runs away with naughty little boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls and eats them up. Note by the translator. The
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  Speaker 1: prince was at a stand, not knowing what to believe,
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  Speaker 1: when a very aged countryman spake to him, thus.
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  Speaker 8: Me, it please your Royal Highness.
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  Speaker 1: It is now about fifty years since I heard my father,
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  Speaker 1: who had heard my grandfather, see that there then was
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  Speaker 1: in this castle a princess, the most beautiful was ever seen,
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  Speaker 1: that she must sleep there a hundred years and should
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  Speaker 1: be awake to pay King's son, for whom she was resolved.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: The young prince was all on fire at these words,
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  Speaker 1: believing without a moment's doubt that he could put an
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  Speaker 1: end to this rare adventure, and, pushed on by love
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: and honor, resolved that moment to look in to it.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Scarce had he advanced towards the wood, when all the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: great trees, the bushes and brambles gave way of themselves
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: to let him pass through. He walked up to the castle,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: which he saw at the end of a large avenue
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: which he went into. And what a little surprised him
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: was that he saw none of his people could follow him,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: because the trees closed again as soon as he had
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: passed through them. However, he did not cease from continuing
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: his way. A young and amorous prince is always valiant.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: He came into a spacious outward court, where everything he
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: saw might have frozen up the most fearless person with horror.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: There reigned over all a most frightful silence. The image
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: of death everywhere showed itself, and there was nothing to
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: be seen but stretched out bodies of men and animals,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: all seeming to be dead. He, however, very well knew
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: by the ruby face and pimpled noses of the beef
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: eaters that they were only asleep, and their goblets wherein
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: still remain some drops of wine showed plainly that they
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: fell asleep in their cups. He then crossed a court
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: paved with marble, went up the stairs, and came into
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: the guard chamber, where the guards were standing in their ranks,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: with their muskets upon their shoulders, and snoring as loud
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: as they could. After that he went through several rooms
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: full of gentlemen and ladies, all asleep, some standing, others sitting.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: where he saw upon a bed, the curtains of which
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: were all open. The finest sight was ever beheld a
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: princess who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: of age, and whose bright and in a manner is
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: splendent beauty had somewhat in it divine. He approached with
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: trembling and admiration, and fell down befo for her upon
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: his knees. And now as the enchantment was at an end,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: the princess awaked, and looking on him with eyes more
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: tender than the first view might seem to admit of
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Is it you, my prince? Said she to him, You
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: have tarried long The prince charmed with these words, and
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: much more with the manner in which they were spoken,
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  Speaker 1: knew not how to show his joy and gratitude. He
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: His discourse was not well connected, but it pleased her
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: all the more, little eloquence, a great deal of love.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: He was more at a loss than she, and we
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: need not wonder at it. She had time to think
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: on what to say to him, For it is very probable,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: though history mentions nothing of it, that the good fairy,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: during so long a sleep, had entertained her with pleasant dreams.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: In short, when they talked four hours together, they said
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: not half what they had to say. In the meanwhile,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: all the palace awaked. Everyone thought upon their particular business,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: and as all of them were not in love, they
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: were ready to die for hunger. The chief Lady of Honor,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and told the princess aloud that supper was served up.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: The Prince helped the princess to rise. She was entirely
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: dressed and very magnificently, but his Royal Highness took care
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  Speaker 1: not to tell her that she was dressed like his
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: great grandmother, and had a point band peeping over a
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: high collar. She looked not a bit the less beautiful
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and charming for all that, They went into the Great
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Hall of Looking Glasses, where they supped and were served
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: by the princess's officers. The violins and hautboys played old tunes,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: but very excellent, though it was now above a hundred
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: years since they had been played, And after supper, without
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: losing any time, the Lord Olma married them in the
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: chapel of the castle, and the Chief Lady of Honor
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: drew the curtains. They had but very little sleep. The
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: princess had no occasion, and the prince left her next
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: morning to return into the city, where his father must
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: needs have been anxious on his account. The prince told
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: him that he lost his way in the forest as
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: he was hunting, and that he had lain at the
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: cottage of a collier who gave him cheese and brown bread.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: The King, his father, who was of an easy disposition,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: believed him, but his mother could not be persuaded this
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: was true, and seeing that he went almost every day
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: a hunting, and that he always had some excuse ready
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: when he had laid out three or four nights together.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: She no longer doubted he had some little amour, for
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: he lived with the princess for above two whole years,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: and had by her two children, the eldest of which,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: who was a daughter, was named Aurora, and the youngest,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: who was a son, they called Day, because he was
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: even handsomer and more beautiful than his sister. The queen
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: said more than once to her son, in order to
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: bring him to speak freely to her, that a young
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: man must e'enn take his pleasure. But he never dared
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: to trust her with his secret. He feared her, though
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: he loved her, for she was of the race of
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the Ogres, and the king could never have married her
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: had it not been for her vast riches. He was
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: even whispered about the court that she had ogreish inclinations,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and that whenever she saw little children passing by, she
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: had all the difficulty in the world to refrain from
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: falling upon them. And so the prince would never tell
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: her one word. But when the king was dead, which
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: happened about two years afterwards, and he saw himself lord
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: and master, he openly declared his marriage, and he went
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in great ceremony to fetch his queen from the castle.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: They made a magnificent entry into the capital city, she
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: riding between her two children. Some time after, the king
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: went to make war with the Emperor Count de la Butte,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: his neighbor. He left the government of the kingdom to
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: the Queen his mother, and earnestly recommended to her care
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: his wife and children. He was like to be at
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: war all the summer, and as soon as he departed,
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  Speaker 1: the queen mother sent her daughter in law and her
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  Speaker 1: children to a country house belonging among the woods, that
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  Speaker 1: she might, with the more ease, gratify her horrible longing.
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  Speaker 1: Some few days afterwards, she went thither herself and said
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  Speaker 1: to the clerk of her kitchen, he have remained to
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  Speaker 1: eat little? Or if he made dinner to marry oh Meriam,
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  Speaker 1: cried the clerk of the kitchen. He will have it, see,
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  Speaker 1: replied the queen. And this she spake in the tone
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  Speaker 1: of an ogres, who had a strong desire to eat
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  Speaker 1: fresh meat, and will eat her with a sauce of
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  Speaker 1: Robert footnote too. This is a French sauce made with
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  Speaker 1: onions shredded and boiled old tender in butter, to which
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  Speaker 1: he added vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper, and a little wine.
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  Speaker 1: Note by the translator. The poor man, knowing very well
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  Speaker 1: that he must not play tricks with ogresses, took his
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  Speaker 1: great knife and went up into a little Aurora's chamber.
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  Speaker 1: She was then four years old, and came up to him,
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  Speaker 1: jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck and
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  Speaker 1: ask him for some sugar candy, upon which he began
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  Speaker 1: to weep. The great knife fell out of his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and he went into the back yard and killed a
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  Speaker 1: little lamb, and dressed it with such good sauce that
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  Speaker 1: his mistress assured him she had never eaten anything so
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  Speaker 1: good in her life. He had, at the same time
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  Speaker 1: taken up Little Aurora and carried her to his wife,
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  Speaker 1: to conceal her in the lodging he had at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the court yard. About eight days afterwards, the
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  Speaker 1: wicked queen said to the clerk of the kitchen he
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  Speaker 1: was sup upon a little day. He answered not a word,
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  Speaker 1: hed being resolved to cheat her as he had done before,
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  Speaker 1: he went to find out little Day and saw him
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  Speaker 1: with a little foil in his hand, with which he
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  Speaker 1: was fencing with a great monkey. The child, being then
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  Speaker 1: only three years of age. He took him up in
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  Speaker 1: his arms and carried him to his wife, that she
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  Speaker 1: might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister.
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  Speaker 1: And in the room of little day cooked up a
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  Speaker 1: young kid, very tender, which the ogress found to be
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  Speaker 1: wonderfully good. This was hitherto all mighty well, But one
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  Speaker 1: evening this wicked queen said to her clerk of the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: I will eat the queen with his eamseuls they had
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  Speaker 1: with her children. It was now that the poor clerk
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  Speaker 1: of the kitchen despair of being able to deceive her.
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  Speaker 1: The young queen was turned of twenty, not reckoning the
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  Speaker 1: hundred years she had been asleep. Her skin was somewhat tough,
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  Speaker 1: though very fair and white. And how to find in
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  Speaker 1: the yard a beast so firm was what puzzled him.
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  Speaker 1: He took then a resolution that he might save his
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  Speaker 1: own life to cut the queen's throat, and going up
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  Speaker 1: into her chamber with intent to do it at once,
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  Speaker 1: he put himself into as great a fury as he
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  Speaker 1: could possibly, and came into the young queen's room with
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  Speaker 1: his dagger in his hand. He would not however, surprise her,
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  Speaker 1: but told her with a great deal of respect, the
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  Speaker 1: orders he had received from the queen mother. Do it,
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  Speaker 1: do it, said she, stretching out her neck. Execute your orders,
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  Speaker 1: and then I shall go and see my children, made
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  Speaker 1: poor children whom eyes so much and so tenderly loved,
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  Speaker 1: for she thought them dead ever since they had been
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  Speaker 1: taken away without her knowledge. No, no, Madam, cried the
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  Speaker 1: poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears. You shall
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  Speaker 1: not die. And yet you shall see your children again.
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  Speaker 1: But it must be in my lodgings where I have
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  Speaker 1: concealed them. And I shall deceive the Queen once more
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  Speaker 1: by giving her in your stood. A young hoined upon this,
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  Speaker 1: he forthwith conducted her to his chamber, where, leaving her
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  Speaker 1: to embrace her children and cry along with them, he
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  Speaker 1: went and dressed a hind which the queen had for
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  Speaker 1: her supper, and devoured it with the same appetite as
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  Speaker 1: if it had been the young queen. Exceedingly was she
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  Speaker 1: delighted with her cruelty, and she had invented a story
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  Speaker 1: to tell the king at his return how ravenous wolves
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  Speaker 1: had eaten up the Queen, his wife, and her two children,
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  Speaker 1: one evening, as she was, according to her custom, rambling
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: about the courts and yards of the palace to see
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  Speaker 1: if she could smell any fresh meat, she heard in
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  Speaker 1: a ground room little Day crying for his Mamma was
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  Speaker 1: going to whip him because he had been naughty, And
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  Speaker 1: she heard at the same time little Aurora begging pardon
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  Speaker 1: for her brother. The ogress presently knew the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Queen and her children, and being quite mad that
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  Speaker 1: she had been thus deceived, she command next morning by
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  Speaker 1: break of day, with a most horrible voice, which made
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  Speaker 1: everybody tremble, that they should bring into the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the great court a large tub, which she caused to
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  Speaker 1: be filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents,
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  Speaker 1: in order to have thrown into it the Queen and
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  Speaker 1: her children, the clerk of the kitchen, his wife and maid,
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  Speaker 1: all whom she had given orders, should be brought thither
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  Speaker 1: with their hands tied behind them. They were brought out accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: and the executioners were just going to throw them into
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: the tub, when the King, who was not so soon expected,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: entered the court on horseback. For he came post and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: asked with the utmost astonishment. What was the meaning of
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: that horrible spectacle? No one dared to tell him. When
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the ogress, all enrage to see what had happened, threw
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  Speaker 1: herself head foremost into the tub, and was instantly devoured
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  Speaker 1: by the ugly creatures she had ordered to be thrown
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: int to it for others. The king could not but
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: be very sorry, for she was his mother, But he
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  Speaker 1: soon comforted himself with his beautiful wife and his pretty children.
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  Speaker 1: The moral to get as prize a husband, rich and
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  Speaker 1: gay of humous sweet, with many years to stay is
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  Speaker 1: natural enough. Tis true to wait for him a hundred years,
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  Speaker 1: and all that while asleep appears a thing entirely new.
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  Speaker 1: Now at this time of day, not one of all
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  Speaker 1: the sex we see doth sleep with such profound tranquility.
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  Speaker 1: But yet this fable seems to let us know that
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  Speaker 1: very often hymen's bliss's sweet, although some tedious obstacles they meet,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: are not less happy for approaching slow. Tis nature's way
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  Speaker 1: that ladies fair should yearn conjugal joys to share. And
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: so I have not the heart to preach a moral
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  Speaker 1: that beyond their reach. End of Section four. The Sleeping
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  Speaker 1: Beauty in the.
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  Speaker 9: Wood, Section five of The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrot.
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  Speaker 9: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 9: by Chap Perot, translated by Robert Samber and J. E. Manson.
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  Speaker 9: Section five. The Master Cat or Puss in boots. There
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  Speaker 9: was a miller who left no more estate to the
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  Speaker 9: three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and
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  Speaker 9: his cat. The partition was soon made. Neither the scrivener
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  Speaker 9: nor attorney were sent, for they would soon have eaten
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  Speaker 9: up all the poor patrimony. The eldest had the mill,
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  Speaker 9: the second the ass, and the youngest nothing but the cat.
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  Speaker 9: The poor young fellow was quite comfortless at having so
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  Speaker 9: poor a lot. My brothers said, he may get their
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  Speaker 9: living handsomely enough by joining their stocks together. But for
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 9: my part, when I have eaten up my cat and
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  Speaker 9: made me a muff of his skin, I must die
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  Speaker 9: with hunger. The cat, who heard all this, but made
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  Speaker 9: as if he did not, said to him with a
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  Speaker 9: grave and serious air, do not thus afflict yourself my
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  Speaker 9: good master, you have only to give me a bag
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  Speaker 9: and get a pair of boots made for me that
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  Speaker 9: I may scamper through the dirt and the brambles, and
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  Speaker 9: you shall see that you have not so bad a
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  Speaker 9: portion of me as you imagine. Though the cat's master
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 9: did not build very much upon what he said, he had, however,
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  Speaker 9: often seen him play a great many cutting tricks to
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  Speaker 9: catch rats and mice, as when he used to hang
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  Speaker 9: by the heels, or hide himself in the meal, and
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  Speaker 9: make as if he were dead, so that he did
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  Speaker 9: not altogether despair of his affording him some help in
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 9: his miserable condition. When the cat had what he asked for,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: he booted himself very gallantly, and putting his bag about
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 9: his neck, he held the strings of it in his
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  Speaker 9: two fore paws, and went into a warren where there
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  Speaker 9: was a great abundance of rabbits. He put bran and
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  Speaker 9: sowthistle into his bag, and, stretching himself out at length
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  Speaker 9: as if he had been dead, he waited for some
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  Speaker 9: young rabbit not yet acquainted with the deceits of the world,
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  Speaker 9: to come and rummage his bag for what he had
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  Speaker 9: put into it. Scarce was he lain down, but he
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  Speaker 9: had what he wanted. A rash and foolish young rabbit
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 9: jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close
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  Speaker 9: the strings, took and killed him without pity. Proud of
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 9: his he went with it to the palace and asked
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 9: to speak with his majesty. He was showed upstairs into
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 9: the King's apartment, and, making a low reverence, said to him,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 9: I have brought you, Sir, a rabbit of the war
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 9: in which my noble lord, the Marquis of Kabbas, for
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 9: that was the title which Puss was pleased to give
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  Speaker 9: his master, has commanded me to present to your Majesty
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  Speaker 9: from him. Tell thy master, said the King, that I
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  Speaker 9: thank him, and that he does me a great deal
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  Speaker 9: of pleasure. Another time he went and hid himself among
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 9: some standing corn, holding still his bag open, and when
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 9: a brace of partridges ran into it, he drew the
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  Speaker 9: strings and so caught them both. He went and made
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  Speaker 9: a present of these to the King, as he had
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 9: done before of the rabbit which he took in the warren.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: The King, in like manner, received the partridges with great pleasure,
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  Speaker 9: and ordered him some money to drink The cat continued
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  Speaker 9: for two or three months, thus to carry his majesty
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  Speaker 9: from time to time game of his master's taking. One
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  Speaker 9: day in particular, when he knew for certain that the
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 9: king was to take the air along the river side
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  Speaker 9: with his daughter, the most beautiful princess in the world,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 9: he said to his master, if you will follow my advice,
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  Speaker 9: your fortune is made. You have nothing else to do
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  Speaker 9: but go and wash yourself in the river in that
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  Speaker 9: part I shall show you and leave the rest to me.
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  Speaker 9: The Marquis of Krabbas did what the cat advised him to,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: without knowing why or where. For while he was washing,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 9: the king passed by, and the cat began to cry
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 9: out as loud as he could help help my lord,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 9: Marquis of Krabbas is drowning. At this noise, the king
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 9: put his head out of his coach window, and, finding
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 9: it was the cat who had so often brought him
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  Speaker 9: such good game, he commanded his guards to run immediately
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 9: to the assistance of his lordship, the marquers Key of Carabbas.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 9: While they were drawing the poor marquis out of the river,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: the cat came up to the coach and told the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 9: king that while his master was washing, there came by
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 9: some rogues who went off with his clothes. Though he
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 9: had cried out thieves, thieves several times as loud as
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 9: he could, this cunning cat had hidden them under a
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 9: great stone. The king immediately commanded the officers of his
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 9: wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 9: for the Lord Marquis of Carabbas. The King received him
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 9: with great kindness, and as the fine clothes he had
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 9: given him extremely set off his good mien, for he
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 9: was well made and very handsome in his person. The
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 9: King's daughter took a secret inclination to him, and the
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 9: Marquis of Carabbas had no sooner cast two or three
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 9: respectful and somewhat tender glances, but she fell in love
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: with him. To distraction, the King would needs have him
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 9: come into his coach and take part of the airing.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: The cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 9: marched on before and meeting with some countrymen who were
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 9: mowing a meadow. He said to them, good people, you
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 9: who are mowing, If you do not tell the King
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: that the meadow you mow belongs to my Lord Marquis
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 9: of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as mincemeat.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 9: The king did not fail, asking of the mowers to
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 9: whom the meadow they were mowing belonged to, my Lord
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 9: Marquis of Karrabbas, answered they all together, for the cat's
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: threats had made them terribly afraid. Truly a fine estate,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 9: said the King to the Marquis of Carabas. You see, sir,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 9: said the Marquis, this is a meadow which never fails
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: to yield a plentiful harvest every year. The master Cat,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 9: who still went on before, met with some reapers and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 9: said to them, good people, you who are reaping, If
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  Speaker 9: you do not tell the King that all this corn
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 9: belongs to the Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 9: as small as mincemeat. The King, who passed by a
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 9: moment after, would needs know to whom all that corn
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 9: which he then saw did belong to my Lord Marquis
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 9: of Carabbas, replied the reapers, and the king again congratulated
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 9: the Marquis. The master Cat, who always went before, said
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 9: the same words to all he met, and the King
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 9: was astonished at the vast estates of my Lord Marquis
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 9: of Carabbas. Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 9: the master of which was an ogre, the richest had
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  Speaker 9: ever been known, for all the lands which the king
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 9: had then gone over belonged to this castle. The cat,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 9: who had taken care to inform himself who this ogre
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 9: was and what he could do, asked to speak with him,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 9: saying he could not pass so near his castle without
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 9: having made honor of paying his respects to him. The
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  Speaker 9: ogre received him as civilly as an ogre could do,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 9: and made him sit down. I have been assured, said
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 9: the cat, that you have the gift of being able
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 9: to change yourself into all sorts of creatures you have
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 9: a mind to You can, for example, transform yourself into
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  Speaker 9: a lion, or elephant, and the like. This is true,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 9: answered the ogre very briskly, and to convince you, you
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  Speaker 9: shall see me now become a lion. Puss was so
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 9: sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 9: him that he immediately got into the gutter, not without
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 9: abundance of trouble and danger because of his boots, which
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 9: were ill suited for walking upon the tiles. A little
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  Speaker 9: while after, when Puss saw that the ogre had resumed
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 9: his natural form. He came down and owned he had
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 9: been very much frightened. I have been moreover informed, said
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 9: the cat. But I know not to believe it that
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 9: you have also the power to take on you the
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 9: shape of the smallest animals, for example, to change yourself
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 9: into a rat or a mouse. But I must own
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 9: to you. I take this to be impossible. Impossible, cried
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 9: the ogre. You shall see that presently, and at the
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 9: same time changed into a mouse and began to run
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 9: about the floor. Puss no sooner perceived this, but he
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 9: fell upon him and ate him up. Meanwhile, the King,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 9: who saw as he passed this fine castle of the ogres,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 9: had a mind to go into it. Puss, who heard
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 9: the noise of his majesty's coach running over the drawbridge,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: ran out and said to the King, Your majesty is
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 9: welcome to this castle of my lord Marquis of Carabas.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 9: What my lord Marquis, cried the king, And does this
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 9: castle also belong to you? There can be nothing finer
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 9: than this court and all the stately buildings which around it.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 9: Let us go into it if you please. The Marquis
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 9: gave his hand to the princess and followed the king,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 9: who went up first. They passed into a spacious hall,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 9: where they found a magnificent collation, which the Ogre had
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 9: prepared for his friends, who were that very day to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 9: visit him, but dared not to enter, knowing the king
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: was there. His Majesty was perfectly charmed with the good
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 9: qualities of my Lord Marquis of Carabas, as was his daughter,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 9: who had fallen violently in love with him, and seeing
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 9: the vast estate he possessed, said to him, after having
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 9: drank five or six classes, it will be owing to
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 9: yourself only, my Lord Marquis, if you are not my
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 9: son in law. The Marquis, making several low bows, accepted
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 9: the honor which his majesty conferred upon him, and forthwith
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 9: that very same day married the princess. Puss became a
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: great lord, and never ran after mice any more, but
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 9: only for his diversion the moral. How advantageous it may
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 9: be by long descent of pedigree to enjoy a great estate,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 9: Yet knowledge how to act we see joined with consummate industry.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 9: Nor wonder ye, thereat doth often prove a greater boon,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 9: as should be to young people known another. If the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 9: son of a miller so soon gains the heart of
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 9: a beautiful princess and makes her impart sweet languishing glances,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 9: eyes melting for love, it must be remarked of fine clothes,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 9: how they move, and that youth, a good face, a
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 9: good air with good mien are not always indifferent mediums
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 9: to win the love of the fair and gently inspire
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  Speaker 9: the flames of sweet passion and tender desire, and of
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  Speaker 9: the master cat or Puss in boots. Read by Kara
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  Speaker 9: Shallenberg www dot kay dot org in San Diego, California,
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  Speaker 9: on January first, two thousand eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Section six of the Fairy Tales of Charles Bureau. This
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot org. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perraut by
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  Speaker 2: Charles Puaux, translated by Robert Samber and J. E. U. Mansion. Cinderella, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the Little Glass Slipper. Once there was a gentleman who
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  Speaker 2: married for his second wife the proudest and most haughty
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  Speaker 2: woman that ever was seen. She had by a former
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  Speaker 2: husband two daughters of her own humor, and they were
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  Speaker 2: indeed exactly like her in all things. He had, likewise
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  Speaker 2: by another wife, a young daughter, but of unparalleled goodness
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  Speaker 2: and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother,
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  Speaker 2: who was the best creature in the world. No sooner
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  Speaker 2: were the ceremonies of the wedding over, but the step
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  Speaker 2: mother began to shew herself in her colors. She could
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  Speaker 2: not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and
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  Speaker 2: the less because they made her own daughters appear, the
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  Speaker 2: more odious. She employed her in the meanest work of
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  Speaker 2: the house. She scoured the dishes, tables, et cetera, and
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  Speaker 2: rubbed Madam's chamber and those of Missus, her daughter's. She
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  Speaker 2: lay up in a sorry garret upon a wretched straw bed,
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  Speaker 2: while her sisters lay in fine rooms with floors all
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  Speaker 2: inlaid upon beds of the very newest fashion, and where
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  Speaker 2: they had looking glasses so large that they might see
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  Speaker 2: themselves at their full length from head to foot. The
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  Speaker 2: poor girl bore all patiently, and dared not tell her father,
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  Speaker 2: who would have rattled her off, for his wife governed
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  Speaker 2: him entire When she had done her work, she used
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  Speaker 2: to go into her chimney corner and sit down among
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  Speaker 2: cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called Cinderbreech.
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  Speaker 2: But the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil
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  Speaker 2: as the eldest, called her Cinderella, because Cinderella, notwithstanding her
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  Speaker 2: mean apparel, was a hundred times handsomer than her sisters,
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  Speaker 2: though they were always dressed very richly. It happened that
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  Speaker 2: the king's son gave a ball and invited all persons
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  Speaker 2: of fashion to it. Our young misses were also invited,
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  Speaker 2: for they cut a very grand figure among the quality.
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  Speaker 2: They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy
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  Speaker 2: in choosing out such gowns, petticoats, and head clothes as
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  Speaker 2: might best become them. This was a new trouble to Cinderella,
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  Speaker 2: for it was she who ironed her sister's linen and
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  Speaker 2: plaited their ruffles. They talked all day long of nothing
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  Speaker 2: but how they should be dressed. For my part, said
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  Speaker 2: the eldest, I will wear my red velvet suit with
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  Speaker 2: French trimming. And I said the youngest shall only have
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  Speaker 2: my usual petticoat. But then to make amends for that.
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  Speaker 2: I will put on my gold flowered manteau and my
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  Speaker 2: diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary
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  Speaker 2: one in the world. They sent for the best tire
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  Speaker 2: woman they could get to make up their head dresses
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  Speaker 2: and adjust their double pinners, and they had their red
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  Speaker 2: brushes and patches from the fashionable maker. Cinderella was likewise
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  Speaker 2: called up to them to be consulted in all these matters,
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  Speaker 2: for she had excellent notions and advised them always for
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  Speaker 2: the best nay, and offered her service to dress their heads,
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  Speaker 2: which they were very willing she should do. As she
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  Speaker 2: was doing this, they said to her, Cinderella, would you
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  Speaker 2: not be glad to go to the ball? Ah, said she,
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  Speaker 2: you only jeer at me. It is not for such
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  Speaker 2: as I am to go thither. Thou art in the
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  Speaker 2: right of it, replied they. It would make the people
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  Speaker 2: laugh to see a cinder breech at a ball. Any
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  Speaker 2: one but Cinderella would have dressed their heads orry. But
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  Speaker 2: she was very good and dressed them perfectly well. They
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  Speaker 2: were almost two days without eating, so much they were
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  Speaker 2: transported with joy. They broke above a dozen of laces,
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  Speaker 2: and trying to be laced up close that they might
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  Speaker 2: have a fine slender shape, and they were continually at
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  Speaker 2: their looking glass. At last the happy day came. They
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  Speaker 2: went to court, and Cinderella followed them with her eyes
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  Speaker 2: as long as she could, And when she had lost
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  Speaker 2: sight of them, she fell a crying. Her godmother, who
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  Speaker 2: saw her all in tears, asked her what was the matter?
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could, I wish I could. She was
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  Speaker 2: not able to speak, the rest being interrupted by her
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  Speaker 2: tears and sobbing. This godmother of hers, who was a fairy,
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  Speaker 2: said to her, thou wishest thou couldst go to the ball?
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  Speaker 8: Is it not so?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Cried Cinderella with a great sigh. Well, said her godmother,
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  Speaker 2: be but a good girl, and I contrive that thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt go. Then she took her into the chamber and
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  Speaker 2: said to her, run into the garden and bring me
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  Speaker 2: a pumpkin. Cinderella went immediately to gather the finest she
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  Speaker 2: could get and brought it to her godmother. Not being
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  Speaker 2: able to imagine how this pumpkin could make her go
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  Speaker 2: to the ball, her godmother scooped out all the inside
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  Speaker 2: of it, leaving nothing but the rind, which done, she
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  Speaker 2: struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly
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  Speaker 2: turned into a fine coach gilded all over with gold.
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  Speaker 2: She then went to look into her mouse trap, where
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  Speaker 2: she found six mice all alive, and ordered Cinderella to
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  Speaker 2: lift up a little the trap door, which giving each
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  Speaker 2: mouse as it went out, a little tap with her
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  Speaker 2: wand the mouse was, at that moment turned into a
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  Speaker 2: fair horse, which all together made a very fine set
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  Speaker 2: of six horses of a beautiful mouse, colored dapple gray.
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  Speaker 2: Being at a loss for a coachman, I will go
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  Speaker 2: and see, said Cinderella, if there be never a rat
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  Speaker 2: and the rat trap, that we may make a coachman
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  Speaker 2: of him. Thou art in the right, replied her godmother,
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  Speaker 2: Go and look. Cinderella brought the trap to her, and
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  Speaker 2: in it there were three huge rats. The fairy made
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  Speaker 2: choice of one of the three which had the largest beard,
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  Speaker 2: and having touched him with her wand, he was turned
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  Speaker 2: into a fat, jolly coachman who had the smartest whiskers
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  Speaker 2: eyes ever beheld. After that, she said to her, go
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  Speaker 2: again into the garden, and you'll find six lizards behind
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  Speaker 2: the watering pot. Bring them to me. She had no
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  Speaker 2: sooner done so, but her godmother turned them into six
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  Speaker 2: footmen who skipped up immediately behind the coach with their liveries,
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  Speaker 2: all be daubed with gold and silver, and clung as
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  Speaker 2: close behind it as if they had done nothing else
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  Speaker 2: their whole lives. The fairy then said to Cinderella, well,
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  Speaker 2: you see here an equipage fit to go to the
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  Speaker 2: ball with? Are you not pleased with it?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, cried she? But must I go thither as I
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  Speaker 2: am in these poisoned, nasty rags. Her godmother only just
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  Speaker 2: touched her with her wand, and at the same instant
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  Speaker 2: her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver,
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  Speaker 2: all beset with jewels. This done, she gave her a
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  Speaker 2: pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the whole world.
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  Speaker 2: Being thus decked out, she got up into her coach,
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  Speaker 2: but her godmother above all things, commanded her not to
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  Speaker 2: stay till after midnight, telling her at the same time
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  Speaker 2: that if she stayed at the ball one moment longer,
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  Speaker 2: her coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice,
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  Speaker 2: her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and her clothes
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  Speaker 2: become just as they were before. She promised her godmother
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  Speaker 2: she would not fail of leaving the ball before midnight,
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  Speaker 2: and then away she drove, scarce able to contain herself
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  Speaker 2: for joy. The King's son, who was told that a
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  Speaker 2: great princess whom nobody knew was come, ran out to
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  Speaker 2: receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted
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  Speaker 2: out of the coach, and led her into the hall.
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  Speaker 2: Among all the company, there was immediately a profound silence.
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  Speaker 2: They left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play.
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  Speaker 2: So attentive was every one to contemplate the singular beauty
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  Speaker 2: of this unknown newcomer. Nothing was then heard but a
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  Speaker 2: confused noise of a how handsome she is? Ha, how
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  Speaker 2: handsome she is? The king himself, old as he was,
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  Speaker 2: could not help ogling her, and telling the queen softly
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  Speaker 2: that it was a long time since he had seen
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  Speaker 2: so beautiful and lovely a creature. All the ladies were
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  Speaker 2: busied in considering her clothes and head dress, that they
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  Speaker 2: might have some made next day after the same pattern,
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  Speaker 2: provided they could meet with such fine materials and his
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  Speaker 2: able hands to make them. The King's son conducted her
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  Speaker 2: to the most honorable seat, and afterwards took her out
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  Speaker 2: to dance with him. She danced so very gracefully that
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  Speaker 2: they all more and more admired her. A fine collation
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  Speaker 2: was served up, whereof the young prince ate not a morsel,
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  Speaker 2: so intently was he busied in gazing on her. She
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  Speaker 2: went and sat down by her sisters, shewing them a
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  Speaker 2: thousand civilities, giving them part of the oranges and citrons
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  Speaker 2: which the prince had presented her, with which very much
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  Speaker 2: surprised them, for they did not know her. While Cinderella
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  Speaker 2: was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike
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  Speaker 2: eleven and three quarters, whereupon she immediately made a curtsey
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  Speaker 2: to the company and hasted away as fast as she could.
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  Speaker 2: Being got home, she ran to seek out her godmother,
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  Speaker 2: and after having thanked her, she said she could not
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  Speaker 2: but heartily wish she might go next day to the ball,
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  Speaker 2: because the king's son had desired her. As she was
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  Speaker 2: eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball,
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  Speaker 2: her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderella ran
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  Speaker 2: and opened. How long have you stayed? Cried she gaping,
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  Speaker 2: rubbing her eyes and stretching herself, as if she had
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  Speaker 2: been just awakened sleep. She had, not, however, any manner
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  Speaker 2: of inclination to sleep, since they went from home. If
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  Speaker 2: thou hadst spin at the ball, said one of her sisters,
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  Speaker 2: thou wouldst not have been tired with it. There came
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  Speaker 2: thither the finest princess, the most beautiful ever was seen
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  Speaker 2: with mortal eyes. She shewed us a thousandsivilities, and gave
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  Speaker 2: us oranges and citrons. Cinderella was transported with joy. She
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  Speaker 2: asked them the name of that princess, but they told
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  Speaker 2: her they did not know it, and that the King's
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  Speaker 2: son was very anxious to learn it, and would give
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  Speaker 2: all the world to know who she was. At this, Cinderella, smiling, replied,
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  Speaker 2: she must then be very beautiful. Indeed, Lord, how happy
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  Speaker 2: have you been? Could not I see her? Ah, dear
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  Speaker 2: miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes
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  Speaker 2: which you wear every day? I to be sure, cried
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  Speaker 2: Miss Charlotte, lend my clothes to such a dirty cinder
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  Speaker 2: breech as thou art, who is the fool?
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  Speaker 7: Then?
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  Speaker 2: Cinderella indeed expected some such answer her, and was very
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  Speaker 2: glad of the refusal, for she would have been sadly
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  Speaker 2: put to it if her sister had lent her what
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  Speaker 2: she asked for jestingly. The next day the two sisters
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  Speaker 2: were at the ball, and so was Cinderella, but dressed
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  Speaker 2: more magnificently than before. The king's son was always by her,
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  Speaker 2: and never seized his compliments and amorous speeches to her,
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  Speaker 2: to whom all this was so far from being tiresome
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  Speaker 2: that she quite forgot what her godmother had recommended to her,
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  Speaker 2: so that she at last counted the clock striking twelve.
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  Speaker 2: When she took it to be no more than eleven,
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  Speaker 2: she rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer.
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  Speaker 2: The prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left
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  Speaker 2: behind one of her glass slippers, which the prince took
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  Speaker 2: up most carefully. She got home, but quite out of breath,
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  Speaker 2: without coach or footmen, and in her nasty old clothes,
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  Speaker 2: having nothing left her of all her finery but one
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  Speaker 2: of the little slippers fellow to that she dropped. The
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  Speaker 2: guards of the palace gate were asked if they had
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  Speaker 2: not seen a princess go out, who said they had
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  Speaker 2: seen nobody go out but a young girl, very meanly dressed,
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  Speaker 2: and who had more the air of a poor country
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  Speaker 2: wench than a gentlewoman. When the two sisters returned from
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  Speaker 2: the ball, Cinderella asked them if they had been well diverted,
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  Speaker 2: and if the fine lady had been there. They told
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  Speaker 2: her yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it
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  Speaker 2: struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped
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  Speaker 2: one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and which the king's son had taken up. That he
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  Speaker 2: had done nothing but look at it during all the
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  Speaker 2: latter part of the ball, and that most certainly he
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  Speaker 2: was very much in love with the beautiful person who
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  Speaker 2: owned the little slipper. What they said was very true.
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  Speaker 2: For a few days after, the king's son caused it
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  Speaker 2: to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet that he would
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  Speaker 2: marry her whose foot this slipper would just fit. They
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  Speaker 2: whom he employed, began to try it upon the princesses,
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  Speaker 2: then the duchesses, and all the court, But in vain
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  Speaker 2: it was brought to the two sisters, who did all
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  Speaker 2: they possibly could to thrust their feet into the slipper,
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  Speaker 2: but they could not effect it. Cinderella, who saw all
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  Speaker 2: this and knew her slipper, said to them, laughing, let
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  Speaker 2: me see if it will not fit me. Her sisters
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  Speaker 2: burst out a laughing and began to banter her. The gentleman,
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  Speaker 2: who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly at Cinderella, and,
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  Speaker 2: finding her very handsome, said it was but just that
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  Speaker 2: she should try, and that he had orders to let
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  Speaker 2: every one make trial. He invited Cinderella to sit down, and,
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  Speaker 2: putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went
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  Speaker 2: on very easily and fitted her as if it had
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  Speaker 2: been made of wax. The astonishment her two sisters were
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  Speaker 2: in was excessively great, but still abundantly greater when Cinderella
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  Speaker 2: pulled out of her pocket the other slipper and put
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  Speaker 2: it on her foot. Thereupon in came her godmother, who,
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  Speaker 2: having touched with her wand Cinderella's clothes, made them rich
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  Speaker 2: and more magnificent than any of those she had before.
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  Speaker 2: And now her two sisters found her to be that fine,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful lady whom they had seen at the ball. They
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  Speaker 2: threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all
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  Speaker 2: the ill treatment they had made her undergo. Cinderella took
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  Speaker 2: them up, and as she embraced them, cried that she
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  Speaker 2: forgave them with all her heart, and desired them always
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  Speaker 2: to love her. She was conducted to the young prince,
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  Speaker 2: dressed as she was. He thought her more charming than ever,
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  Speaker 2: And a few days after married her. Cinderella, who was
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  Speaker 2: no less good than beautiful, gave her two sisters lodgings
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  Speaker 2: in the palace, and that very same day matched them
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  Speaker 2: with two great lords of the court. The moral beauties
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  Speaker 2: to the sex a treasure still admired beyond all measure,
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  Speaker 2: and never yet was any known by still admiring weary groan.
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  Speaker 2: But that rare quality called grace exceeds by far a
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  Speaker 2: handsome face. Its lasting charms surpassed the other. And this
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  Speaker 2: rich gift her kind godmother bestowed on Cinderella Fair, whom
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  Speaker 2: she instructed with such care. She gave to her such
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  Speaker 2: graceful mien that she thereby became a queen. For thus,
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  Speaker 2: may ever truth prevail, we draw our moral from this tale.
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  Speaker 2: This quality, fair ladies know, prevails much more. You'll find
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  Speaker 2: it so to engage and captivate a heart than a
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  Speaker 2: fine head dressed up with art. The fairy's gift of
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  Speaker 2: greatest worth is grace of bearing, not high birth. Without
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  Speaker 2: this gift will miss the prize. Possession gives us wings
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  Speaker 2: to rise another a great advantage. Tis no doubt to
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  Speaker 2: man to have wit, courage, birth, good sense, and brain,
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  Speaker 2: and other suchlike qualities which we received from Heaven's kind
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  Speaker 2: hand and destiny. But none of these rich graces from
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  Speaker 2: above to your advancement in the world will prove if
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  Speaker 2: Godmothers and sires you disobey against their strict advice too
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  Speaker 2: long you stay. End of Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper.
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  Speaker 6: Charles Perraut, translated by Robert Samber and J. E. Manson.
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  Speaker 6: Section seven riquet with the tuft. There was once upon
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  Speaker 6: a time a queen who was brought to bed of
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  Speaker 6: a son so hideously ugly that it was long disputed
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  Speaker 6: whether he had human form. A fairy who was at
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  Speaker 6: his birth affirmed he would be very lovable for all
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  Speaker 6: that since he should be endowed with abundance of w wit.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 6: She even added that it would be in his power,
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  Speaker 6: by virtue of a gift she had just then given
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  Speaker 6: him to bestow on the person he most loved, as
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  Speaker 6: much wit as he pleased. All this somewhat comforted the
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 6: poor queen, who was under a grievous affliction for having
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  Speaker 6: brought into the world such an ugly brat. It is
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 6: true that this child no sooner began to prattle, but
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 6: he said a thousand pretty things, and that in all
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  Speaker 6: his actions there was something so taking that he charmed everybody.
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  Speaker 6: I forgot to tell you that he came into the
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  Speaker 6: world with a little tuft of hair upon his head,
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  Speaker 6: which made them call him Riquet with the tuft, for
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 6: Rickquey was the family name. Seven or eight years after this,
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  Speaker 6: the queen of a neighboring kingdom was delivered of two
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  Speaker 6: daughters at a birth. The first born of these was
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  Speaker 6: beautiful beyond compare whereat. The queen was so very glad
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  Speaker 6: that those present were afraid that her excess of joy
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 6: would do her. The same fairy who had assisted at
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: the birth of little Riquet with the tuft, was here
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 6: also and to moderate the Queen's gladness, she declared that
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  Speaker 6: this little princess should have no wit at all, but
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  Speaker 6: be as stupid as she was pretty. This mortified the
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  Speaker 6: queen extremely, but some moments afterwards she had far greater sorrow,
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  Speaker 6: for the second daughter she was delivered of was very ugly.
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  Speaker 6: Do not afflict yourself so much, madam, said the fairy.
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  Speaker 6: Your daughter shall have so great a portion of wit
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  Speaker 6: that her want of beauty will scarcely be perceived. God
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  Speaker 6: grant it, replied the queen. But is there no way
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  Speaker 6: to make the eldest, who is so pretty, have some
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  Speaker 6: little wit? I can do nothing for her, madam as
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  Speaker 6: to wit, answered the fairy, But everything as to beauty,
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  Speaker 6: And as there is nothing but what I would do
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  Speaker 6: for your satisfaction, I give her forgive, that she shall
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  Speaker 6: have the power to make handsome the person who shall
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  Speaker 6: best please her. As these princesses grew up, their perfections
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  Speaker 6: grew up with them. All the public talk was of
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  Speaker 6: the beauty of the eldest and the wit of the youngest.
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  Speaker 6: It is true also that their defects increased considerably with
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 6: their age. The youngest visibly grew uglier and uglier, and
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: the eldest became every day more and more stupid. She
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 6: either made no answer at all to what was asked her,
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  Speaker 6: or said something very silly. She was, with all this
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  Speaker 6: so unhandy that she could not place four pieces of
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  Speaker 6: china upon the mantelpiece without breaking one of them, nor
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  Speaker 6: drink a glass of water without spilling half of it
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  Speaker 6: upon her cloths. Though beauty is a very great advantage
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  Speaker 6: in young people, yet here the youngest sister bore away
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  Speaker 6: the bell. Almost always in all companies from the eldest,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 6: people would indeed go first to the beauty to look
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  Speaker 6: upon and admire her, but turn aside soon after to
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  Speaker 6: the wit to hear a thousand most entertaining and agreeable turns.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 6: And it was amazing to see in less than a
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  Speaker 6: quarter of an hour's time, the eldest, with not a
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  Speaker 6: soul with her, and the whole company crowding about the youngest.
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  Speaker 6: The eldest, though she was unaccountably dull, could not but
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  Speaker 6: notice it, and would have given all her beauty to
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  Speaker 6: have half the wit of her sister. The Queen, prudent
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  Speaker 6: as she was, could not help reproaching her several times,
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  Speaker 6: which had liked to have made this poor princess die
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  Speaker 6: for grief. One day, as she retired into the wood
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 6: to bewail her misfortune, she saw coming to her a
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  Speaker 6: little man, very disagreeable, but most magnificently dressed. This was
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 6: the young Prince Riquet with the Tuft, who, having fallen
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 6: in love with her by seeing her picture, many of
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 6: which went all over the world, had left as far
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  Speaker 6: Father's kingdom to have the pleasure of seeing and talking
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  Speaker 6: with her. Overjoyed to find her thus all alone, he
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  Speaker 6: addressed himself to her with all imaginable politeness and respect,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 6: Having observed, after he had made her the ordinary compliments,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 6: that she was extremely melancholy, he said to her, I
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  Speaker 6: cannot comprehend, madam, how a person so beautiful as you
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  Speaker 6: are can be so sorrowful as you seem to be.
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  Speaker 6: For though I can boast of having seen infinite numbers
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  Speaker 6: of ladies exquisitely charming, I can say that I never
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  Speaker 6: beheld any one whose beauty approaches yours. You are pleased
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  Speaker 6: to say so, answered the princess, and here she stopped. Beauty,
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  Speaker 6: replied Riquet with the Tuft, is such a great advantage
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 6: that it ought to take the place of all things.
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  Speaker 6: And since you possess this treasure, I see nothing that
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  Speaker 6: can possibly very much afflict you, I had far Tather,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 6: cried the princess. Be as ugly as you are and
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 6: have wit, Then have the beauty I possess, and be
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  Speaker 6: so stupid as I am. There is nothing, Madam returned.
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  Speaker 6: He shows more that we have wit than to believe
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  Speaker 6: we have none. And it is the nature of that
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 6: excellent quality that the more people have of it, the
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 6: more they believe they want it. I do not know, that,
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 6: said the princess, but I know very well that I
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 6: am very senseless, and thence precedes the vexation which almost
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 6: kills me. If that be all, Madam, which troubles you,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 6: I can very easily put an end to your affliction.
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  Speaker 6: And how will you do that, cried the princess. I
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  Speaker 6: have the power, madam, replied Riquet, with the tuft to
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 6: give to that person whom I shall love best, as
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 6: much wit as can be had. And as you, Madam,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 6: are that very person, it will be your fault only
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 6: if you have none as great a share of it
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  Speaker 6: as any one living, provided you will be pleased to
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  Speaker 6: marry me. The princess remained quite astonished and answered not
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 6: a word I see, replied Riquet with the Tuft, that
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 6: this proposal makes you very uneasy, and I do not
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  Speaker 6: wonder at it, but I will give you a whole
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 6: year to consider of it. The princess had so little wit,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 6: and at the same time so great a longing to
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 6: have some, that she imagined the end of that year
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 6: would never be Therefore, she accepted the proposal which was
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 6: made her. She had no sooner promised Riquet with the Tuft,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 6: that she would marry him on that day twelvemonth, than
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 6: she found herself quite otherwise than she was before. She
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 6: had an incredible facility of speaking whatever she pleased after
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 6: a polite, easy and natural manner. She began that moment
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 6: a very gallant conversation with Riquet with the Tuft, wherein
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 6: she he tattled at such a rate that Riquet with
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 6: the Tuft believed he had given her more wit than
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 6: he had reserved for himself. When she returned to the palace,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 6: the whole court knew not what to think of such
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 6: a sudden and extraordinary change, for they heard from her
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  Speaker 6: now as much sensible discourse and as many infinitely witty turns,
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  Speaker 6: as they had stupid and silly impertinences before. The whole
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 6: court was overjoyed at it beyond imagination. It pleased all
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 6: but her younger sister, because, having no longer the advantage
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  Speaker 6: of her in respective wit, she appeared in comparison of her,
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 6: a very disagreeable, homely puss. The king governed himself by
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 6: her advice, and would even sometimes hold a council in
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 6: her apartment. The noise of this change spreading everywhere, all
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 6: the young princes of the neighboring kingdoms strove all they
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 6: could to gain her favor, and almost all of them
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 6: asked her in marriage. But she found not one of
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 6: them had wit enough for her, and she gave them
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  Speaker 6: all a hearing, but would not engage herself to any. However,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 6: there came one so powerful, rich, witty and handsome that
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 6: she could not help having a good inclination for him.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 6: Her father perceived it and told her that she was
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 6: her own mistress as to the choice of a husband,
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  Speaker 6: and that she might declare her intentions. As the more
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 6: wit we have, the greater difficulty we find to make
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 6: a firm resolution upon such affairs. This made her desire
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 6: her father. After having thanked him to give her time
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 6: to consider of it, she went accidentally to walk in
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 6: the same wood where she met Riquet with the tuft,
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  Speaker 6: to think the more conveniently.
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  Speaker 1: What she ought to do.
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  Speaker 6: While she was walking in a profound meditation, she heard
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 6: a confused noise under her feet, as it were, of
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 6: a great many people who went backwards and forwards and
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 6: were very busy. Having listened more attentively, he heard one say,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 6: bring me that pot, and another gimme that kettle, and
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 6: a third put some wood on the fire. The ground
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 6: at the same time opened, and she seemingly saw under
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 6: her feet a great kitchen full of cooks, scullions, and
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  Speaker 6: all sorts of servants necessary for a magnificent entertainment. There
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  Speaker 6: came out of it a company of roasters, to the
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 6: number of twenty or thirty, who went to plant themselves
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  Speaker 6: in a fine alley of wood about a very long table,
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  Speaker 6: with their larding pins in their hands and skewers in
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 6: their caps, who began to work, keeping time to the
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: tune of a very harmonious song. The princess, all astonished
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  Speaker 6: at this sight, asked them who they worked for. For
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: Prince Riquet with the tuft, said the chief of them,
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  Speaker 6: who is to be married tomorrow. The princess was more
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 6: surprised than ever, and recollecting that it was now that
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 6: day twelvemonth, on which she had promised to marry Riquet
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 6: with the Tuft, she was like to sink into the ground.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 6: What made her forget this was that when she made
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 6: this promise she was very silly, and having obtained that
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 6: vast stock of wit which the Prince had bestowed on her,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: she had entirely forgot her stupidity. She continued walking, but
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 6: had not taken thirty steps before Riquet with the Tuft
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 6: presented himself to her, bravely and most magnificently, dressed like
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 6: a prince who is going to be married. You see, madam,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 6: said he. I am very exact in keeping my word,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 6: and doubt not in the least, but you are come
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 6: hither to perform yours, and to make me, by giving
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 6: me your hand, the happiest of men. I shall freely
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 6: own to you. Answered the Princess that I have not
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 6: yet taken any resolution on this affair, and believe I
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 6: never shall take such a word as you desire. You
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 6: astonish me madam, said Riquet with the tuft. I believe it,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 6: said the princess. And surely if I had to do
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 6: with a clown or a man of no wit, I
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 6: should find myself very much at a loss. A princess
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 6: always observes her word. Would he say to me, and
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 6: you must marry me, since you promised to do so.
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  Speaker 6: But as he whom I talked to is the man
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 6: of the world, who is master of the greatest sense
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 6: and judgment, I am sure he will hear. Reason. You
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  Speaker 6: know that when I was but a fool, I could notwithstanding,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 6: never come to a resolution to marry you. Why will
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 6: you have me now? I have so much judgment as
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 6: you gave me, and which makes me a more difficult
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 6: person than I was at that time to come to
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  Speaker 6: such a resolution which I could not then determine to
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 6: agree to. If you sincerely thought to make me your wife,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 6: you have been greatly in the wrong to deprive me
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 6: of my dult simplicity and make me see things much
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 6: more clearly than I did. If a man of no
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 6: wit and sense, replied Riquet with the tuft, would be entitled,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 6: as you say, to reproach you for breach of your word.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 6: Why will you not let me, madam, do likewise in
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 6: a matter wherein all the happiness of my life is concerned.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 6: Is it reasonable that persons of wit and sense should
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 6: be in a worse condition than those who have none?
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 6: Can you pretend this, you who have so great a
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 6: share and desired so earnestly to have it? But let
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 6: us come to fact, if you please, Setting aside my
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 6: ugliness and deformity, is there anything in me which displeases you?
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  Speaker 6: Are you dissatisfied with my birth, my wit, humor, or manners?
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  Speaker 6: Not at all, answered the Princess. I love you and
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 6: respect you in all that you mentioned. If it be so,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 6: said Riquet, with the tuft, I am like to be happy,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 6: since it is in your power to make me the
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 6: most lovable of men? How can that be? Said the Princess.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 6: It will come about, said Riquet, with the tuft, if
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 6: you love me enough to wish it to be so,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 6: and that you may no ways doubt, Madam, of what
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 6: I say. I know that the same fairy who on
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 6: my birthday gave me for gift the power of making
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 6: the person who shall please me extremely witty and judicious,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 6: has in like manner given you for gift the power
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 6: of making him whom you love, and would grant that
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 6: favor too extremely handsome if it be so, said the princess,
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  Speaker 6: I wish with all my heart that you may be
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 6: the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 6: it on you as much as I am able. The
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 6: princess had no sooner pronounced these words, but Riquet, with
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 6: the tuft of appeared to her the finest prince upon earth,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 6: the handsomest and most amiable man she ever saw. Some
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 6: affirmed that it was not the enchantments of the fairy
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 6: which worked this change, but that love alone caused the metamorphosis.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 6: They say that the princess, having made due reflection on
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 6: the perseverance of her lover, his discretion, and all the
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 6: good qualities of his mind, his wit and judgment, saw
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 6: no longer the deformity of his body, nor the ugliness
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 6: of his face. That his hump seemed to her no
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 6: more than the homely air of one who has a
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 6: broad back, And that whereas till then she saw him
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 6: limp horribly, she found it nothing more than a certain
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 6: sidling air, which charmed her. They say farther that his eyes,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 6: which were very squinty, seemed to her all the more
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 6: bright and sparkling, and that their irregularity passed, in her judgment,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 6: for a mark of a violent excess of love. And
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: in short, that his great red nose had, in her opinion,
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 6: somewhat of the marshal and heroic. Howsoever it was, the
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 6: princess promised immediately to marry him, on condition he obtained
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 6: her father's consent. The King, being acquainted that his daughter
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 6: had abundance of esteem for Riquet with the Tuft, whom
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 6: he knew otherwise for a most sage and judicious prince,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 6: received him for his son in law with pleasure, and
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 6: the next morning their nuptials were celebrated, as Raquet with
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 6: the Tuft had foreseen, and according to the orders he
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 6: had a long time before given the moral. What in
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 6: this little tale we find is less a fable than
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 6: real truth. In those we love appear rare gifts of
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 6: mind and body, too, wit, judgment, beauty, youth, another a countenance,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 6: whereupon by nature's hand beauty is traced also the lively
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 6: stain of such complexion art can ne'er attain. With all
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 6: these gifts have not so much command on heart's as
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 6: hath one secret charm alone love finds that out to
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 6: all besides unknown. End of rouquet with the Tuft. Recording
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  Speaker 6: by Susan Burke, Boston, Massachusetts, zue Burke Voice dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Section eight of The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. This
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  Speaker 1: libyvox dot org. Recording by Algiepug The Fairy Tales of
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  Speaker 1: Charles Perraut by Charles Perraut, translated by Robert Samba and J. E. Mansion.
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  Speaker 1: Section eight Little Thumb. There was once upon a time
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: a man and his wife, faggot makers by trade, who
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: had seven children, all boys. The eldest was but ten
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: years old, and the youngest only seven. One might wonder
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: how that the faggot maker could have so many children
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: in so little a time, But it was because his
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: wife went nimbly about her business and never brought fewer
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: than two at a birth. They were very poor, and
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: their seven children incommoded them greatly, because not one of
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: them was able to earn his bread that which gave
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: them Yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was of
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spake a word,
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: which made them take that for stupidity, which was the
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: sign of good sense. He was very little, and when
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: no bigger than one's thumb, which made him be called
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: little thumb. The poor child bore the blame of whatsoever
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: was done amiss in the house, and guilty or not,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: was always in the wrong. He was, notwithstanding more cunning,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: and had a far greater share of wisdom than all
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: his brothers put together. And if he spake little, he
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: heard and thought the more. There happened now to come
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: a very bad year, and the famine were so great
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: that these poor people resolved to rid themselves of their children.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: One evening, when they were all in bed, and the
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: faggot maker was sitting with his wife at the fire,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: he said to her, with his heart ready to burst
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: with grief, though seuest plainly that we are not able
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: to keep our children, and I cannot see them starved
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: to death before my face. I am reserved to lose
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: them in the wood to morrow, which may very easily
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: be yun for we'll they're busy tying up the faggots,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: we may run away and leave them without their taking
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: any notice. Ah, cried out his wife, and canst thou
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: thyself have the heart to take their children out along
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: with thee on purpose to.
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  Speaker 8: Lose them in vain?
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  Speaker 1: Did her husband represent to her their extreme poverty? She
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: would not consent to it. She was indeed poor, but
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: she was their mother. However, having considered what a grief
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: would be to her to see them perish with hunger,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: she at last consented and went to bed all in tears.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: Little Thumb heard every word that had been spoken, for
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: observing as he lay in his bed that they were
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: talking very busily, he had got up softly and hid
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: himself under his father's stool, that he might hear what
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: they said without being seen. He went to bed again,
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: but did not sleep a wink all the rest of
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: the night, thinking on what he ought to do. He
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: got up early in the morning and went to the
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: river side, where he filled his pockets full of small
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: white pebbles, and then returned home. They all went abroad,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: but Little Thumb never told his brothers one syllable of
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: what he knew. They went into a very thick forest
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: where they could not see one another at ten paces distance.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: The fagot maker began to cut wood, and the children
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: to gather up sticks to make faggots. Their father and mother,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: seeing them busy at their work, got from them by degrees,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: and then ran away from them all at once along
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: a byway through the winding bushes. When the children saw
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: they were left alone, they began to cry as loud
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: as they could. Little thumb let them cry on, knowing
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: very well how to go home again, for as he came,
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: he had taken care to drop all along the way
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. Then
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: said he to them, be not a freed brother. Father
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: and mother have left us here, but I will lead
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: you home again. Only follow me. They did so, and
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: he brought them home by the very same way they
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: came into the forest. They dared not to go in,
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: but sat themselves down at the door, listening to what
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: their father and mother were saying. The very moment the
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: fagot maker and his wife were got home, the Lord
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: of the Manor sent to them ten crowns, which he
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: had owed them a long while, and which they never expected.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: This gave them new life, for the poor people were
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: almost famished. The fagot maker sent his wife immediately to
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: the butcher's, as it was a long while since they
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: had eaten a bit. She brought thrice as much meat
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: as would suck two people. Having filled their bellies, the
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: woman said, alas, where are now our poor children? They
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: would make a good feast of what we have left here.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: But then it was you, William, who had a mind
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: to lose them. I told you we should repent of it.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: What are they now doing in the forest? Alas, dear God,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: the wolves have perhaps already eaten them up. Thou art
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: very inhuman, thus to have lost thy children. The fagot
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: maker grew at last quite out of patience, for she
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: repeated this above twenty times, that they should repent of it,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: and she was in the right of it. For so saying,
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: he threatened to beat her if she did not hold
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: her tongue. It was not that the fagot maker was
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: not perhaps more vexed than his wife, but that she
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: teased him, and that he was of the humor of
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: a great many others who love wives who speak right,
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: but think those very importunate, who are always in the right.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: She was half drowned in tears, crying out, alas, where
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: are now my children, my poor children. She spake this
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: so very loud that the children who were at the
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: door began to cry out all together, Here we are,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: Here we are. She ran immediately to open the door
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: and said, hugging them, I am glad to see you,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: my dear children. You are very hungry and weary, and
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: my poor Peter thou art horribly bemid. Come in and
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: let me clean me. Now you must know that Peter
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: was her eldest son, whom she loved above all the rest,
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: because he was somewhat carrity as she herself was. They
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: sat down to supper and ate with such a good
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: appetite as pleased both father and mother, whom they acquainted.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: How frightened they were in the forest, speaking almost always
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: all together. The good folks were extremely glad to see
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: their children once more at home, and this joy continued
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: while the ten crowns lasted. But when the money was
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: all gone, they fell again into their former uneasiness and
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: resolved to lose them again, and that they might be
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: the surer of doing it, to carry them at a
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: much greater distance than before. They could not talk of
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: this so secretly, but they were overheard by Little Thumb,
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: who made a count to get out of this difficulty
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: as well as the former. But though he got up
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: betimes in the morning to go and pick up some
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: little pebbles, he was disappointed, for he found the house
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: door double locked, and was at a stand what to do.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: When their father had given them each a piece of
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: bread for their breakfast, he fancied he might make use
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: of this bread instead of the pebbles, by throwing it
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: in little bits along the way they should pass, and
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: so he put it up into his pocket. Their father
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: and mother brought them into the thickest and most obscure
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: part of the forest, when stealing away into a by path,
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: they there left them. Little Thumb was not very uneasy
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: at it, for he thought he could easily find the
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: way again by means of his bread, which he had
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: scattered all along as he came. But he was very
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: much surprised when he could not find so much as
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: one crumb. The birds had come and eaten it up
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: every bit. They were now in great affliction, for the
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: farther they went, the more they were out of their way,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: and were more and more bewildered in the forest. Night
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: now came on, and there rose a terrible high wind,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: which made them dreadfully afraid. They fancied they heard on
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: every side of them the howling of wolves coming to
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: eat them up. They scarce stared to speak or turn
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: their heads. After this, it rained very hard, which wet
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: them to the skin. Their feet slipped at every step
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: they took, and they fell into the mire. Whence they
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: got up in a very dirty pickle. Their hands were
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: in a sorry state. Little Thumb climbed up to the
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: top of a tree to see if he could discover anything,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: and having turned his head about on every side, he
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: saw at last a glimmering light like that of a candle,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: But a long way from the forest. He came down
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: and went upon the ground. He could see it no more,
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: which grieved him sadly. However, having walked for some time
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: with his brothers towards that side on which he had
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: seen the light, he perceived it again as he came
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: out of the wood. They came at last to the
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: house where this candle was. Not without abundance of fear,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: for very often they lost sight of it, which happened
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: every time they came into a bottom. They knocked at
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: the door, and a good woman came and opened it.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: She asked them what they wished. Little Thumb told her
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: they were poor children who had been lost in the
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: forest and desired to lodge there for God's sake. The woman,
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: seeing them so very pretty, began to weep and said
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: to them, alas, poor babies, whither are you come? Do
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: ye know that this house belongs to a cruel ogre
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: who eats up little children? Ah? Dear madam, answered little Thumb,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: who trembled every joint of him, as well as his brothers.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: What shall we do to be sure? The wolves of
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: the forest will devour us to nate if you refuse
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: us to lay here, and so we would rather the
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: gentlemen should eat us. Perhaps he will take pity on us,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: especially if you please to beg it of him. The
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: ogre's wife, who believed she could conceal them from her
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: husband till morning, let them come in, and brought them
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: to warn themselves at a very good fire, for there
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: was a whole sheep upon the spit roasting for the
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: ogre's supper. As they began to be a little warm,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: they heard three or four great raps at the door.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: This was the ogre who was come home. Upon this,
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: she hid them under the bed and went to open
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: the door. The ogre presently asked if supper was ready
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: and the wine drawn, and then he sat himself down
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: to table. The sheep was as yet all raw and bloody,
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: but he liked it the better for that. He sniff'd
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: about to the right left, saying.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 8: Ah, smell fresh meat? Would you smell? So?
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: Said his wife, must be the calf which I have
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: just now killed and fled.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 8: Ah smell fresh meat, I tell thee, once.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: More, replied the ogre, looking crossly at his wife. Under
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: is sumpthing here which I do not understand. As he
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: spake these words, he got up from the table and
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: went directly to the bed.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 8: Ah said he, I see how thou wouldst cheat.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: Me, thou curst woman. AH know not why I do
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: not eat up thee too. But it is well for
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: thee that thou art a too old carrion. Here is
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: good game, which comes very luckily to entertain three ogres
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: of my acquaintance, or to pay me a visit in
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: a day or two. With that, he dragged out from
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: under the bed. One by one, the poor children fell
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: upon their knees and begged his pardon, for they had
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: to do with one of the most cruel ogres in
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: the world, who, far from having any pity on them,
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: had already devoured them.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 8: With his eyes.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: He told his wife they would be delicate eating when
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: tossed up with good savory sauce. He then took a
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: great knife, and, coming up to these poor children, wetted
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: it upon a great wet stone, which he held in
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: his left hand. He had already taken hold of one
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: of them, when his wife said to him, what need
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: you do it now? It is tame enough to morrow
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: ood your.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 8: Prattling, said the ogre. They will eat the ten brah.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: But you have so much meat already, replied his wife.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: You have no accusion. Here is a calf to a
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: sheep and half a hog. That is true, said the Ogre.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 8: Give them their bellyful that they may not fall away,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 8: and put them to bed.
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: The good woman was overjoyed at this, and gave them
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: a good supper, But they were so much afraid they
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: could not eat a bit. As for the ogre, he
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: sat down again to drink, being highly pleased that he
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: had got wherewithal to treat his friends. He drank a
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: dozen glasses more than ordinary, which got up into his
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: head and obliged him to go to bed. The Ogre
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: had seven daughters, all little children, and these young ogresses
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: had all of them very fine complexions, because they used
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: to eat fresh meat like their father. For they had
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: little gray eyes, quite round, hooked noses, wide mouths, and
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: very long sharp teeth. Standing at a good distance from
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: each other, they were not, as yet over and above mischievous,
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: but they promised very fair for it, for they already
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: bit little children that they might suck their blood. They
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: had been put to bed early, with every one a
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: crown of gold upon her head. There was in the
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: same chamber another bed of the like bigness, and it
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: was into this bed the Ogre's wife put the seven
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: little boys, after which she went to bed to her husband.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: Little Thumb, who observed that the Ogre's daughters had crowns
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: of gold upon their heads, and was afraid lest the
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: Ogre should repent his not killing them, got up about midnight, and,
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: taking his brother's bonnets and his own, went very softly
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: put them on the heads of the seven little ogresses,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: after having taken off their crowns of gold, which he
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: put upon his own head, and his brothers, that the
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: Ogre might take them for his daughters, and his daughters
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: for the little boys, whom he wanted to kill. All
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: this succeeded according to his desire. For the Ogre, waking
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: about midnight, and sorry that he had deferred to do
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: that till morning, which he might have done overnight, threw
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: himself hastily out of bed, and taking his great knife.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: Let us see, said he how our little rogues do,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: and not make two jobs of the matter. He then
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: went up, graping all the way into his daughter's chamber,
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: and came to the bed where the little boys lay,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: who were every soul of them fast asleep, except little Thumb,
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: who was terribly afraid. When he found the Ogre fumbling
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: about his head as he had done about his brothers.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: The Ogre, feeling the golden crown, said, AH should have
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: made a fine piece of work of it. Truly, I
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: find a goose'll too much last night. Then he went
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: to the bed where the girls lay, and having found
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: the boy's little bonnets, AH said he, my very lads,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: are you there led us to work, and, saying these
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: words without more ado, he cut the throats of all
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: his seven daughters. Well pleased with what he had done,
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: he went to bed again to his wife. So soon
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: as little Thumb heard the ogre snore, he waked his
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: brothers and bade them put on their clothes presently and
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: follow him. They stole down softly into the garden and
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: got over the wall. They kept running almost all night,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: trembling all the while, without knowing which way they went.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: The Ogre, when he waked, said to his wife, go
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: upstairs and dress those young rascals who came here last night.
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: The ogress was very much surprised at this goodness of
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: her husband, not dreaming after what manner he intended she
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: should dress them, but thinking that he had ordered her
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: to go up and put on their clothes, went up
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: and was strangely astonished. When she perceived her seven daughters
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: killed and weltering in their blood. She fainted away, For
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: this is the first expedient almost all women find in
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: such like cases. The Ogre, fearing his wife would be
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: too long in doing what he had ordered, went up
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: himself to help her. He was no less amazed than
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: his wife at this frightful spectacle.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 8: Ah, what have I done? Cried he?
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: The curse and wretches shall pay for it, and that instantly.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: He then threw a pitcher of water upon his wife's face, and,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: having brought her to herself, give me quickly, cried he, ma,
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: boots of seven leagues, that, ah, my gore and catch them.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: He went out, and, having run over a vast deal
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: of ground, both on this side and that, he came
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: at last into the very road where the poor children were,
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: and not above a hundred paces from their father's house.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: There spied the Ogre, who went at one step from
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: narrowest kennels little thumb. Seeing a hollow rock near the
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it,
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: of the ogre. The ogre, who found himself much tired
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: with his long and fruitless journey for these boots of
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: seven leagues. Extremely fatigue the wearer had a great mind
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: to rest himself, and by chance went to sit down
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: upon the rock where these little boys had hid themselves,
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: as he was worn out, he fell asleep, and after
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: reposing himself some time, he began to snore so frightfully
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: that the poor children were no less afraid of him
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: than when he held up his great knife and was
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: going to cut their throats. Little Thumb was not so
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: much frightened as his brothers, and told them that they
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: should run away immediately towards home, while the ogre was
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: asleep so soundly, and that they should not be so
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: anxious about him. They took his advice and got home presently.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: Little Thumb came up to the Ogre, pulled off his
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: boots gently, and put them upon his own legs. These
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: boots were very long and large, but as they were fairies,
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: they had the gift of becoming big and little according
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: to the legs of those who wore them, so that
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: they fitted his feet and legs as well as if
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: they had been made on purpose for him. He went
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: immediately to the Ogre's house, where he saw his wife
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: crying bitterly for the loss of her murdered daughters. Your husband, said,
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: little Thumb is in very great danger, having been taken
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: by a gang of thieves who have sworn to kill
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: him if he does not give them all his gold
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: and silver. Just when they had their daggers at his throat,
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: he perceived me and desir'd me to come and tell
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: you the condition he is in, and that you should
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: give me whatsoever he has of value, without be teeding
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: any one thing, for otherwise they may kill him without mercy.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: And as his case is very pressing, he desired me
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: to make use. You'll see, I have them on who
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: his boots, that they might meet the more heaste, and
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: assure you that I do not impose myself upon you.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: The good woman, being sadly frightened, gave him all she had.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: For this Ogre was a very good husband. They were
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: used to eat up little children. Little Thumb, having thus
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: got all the Ogre's money, came home to his father's house,
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: where he was received with abundance of joy. There are
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: many people who do not agree in this circumstance, and
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: pretend that little Thumb never robbed the Ogre at all,
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  Speaker 1: and that he only thought he might, very justly and
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  Speaker 1: with safe conscience, take off his boots of seven leagues,
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  Speaker 1: because he made no other use of them but to
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  Speaker 1: run after the little children. These folks affirm that they
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  Speaker 1: were very well assured of this, and the more as,
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  Speaker 1: having drank and eaten often at the faggot maker's house,
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  Speaker 1: they aver that when Little Thumb had taken off the
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  Speaker 1: ogre's boots, he went to court, where he was informed
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  Speaker 1: that they were very anxious about a certain army which
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  Speaker 1: was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle.
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  Speaker 1: He went, say they to the King, and told him
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  Speaker 1: that if he would desired it, he would bring him
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  Speaker 1: news from the army before night. The King promised him
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  Speaker 1: a great sum of money. Upon that condition. Little Thumb
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  Speaker 1: was as good as his word, and returned that very
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  Speaker 1: same night with the news, and this first expedition causing
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  Speaker 1: him to be known. He got whatever he pleased, for
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  Speaker 1: the King paid him very well for carrying his orders
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  Speaker 1: to the army, and abundance of ladies gave him what
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  Speaker 1: he would to bring them news from their lovers, and
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  Speaker 1: that this was his greatest gain. There were some married
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  Speaker 1: women too, who sent letters by him to their husbands,
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  Speaker 1: but they paid him so ill that it was not
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  Speaker 1: worth his while, and turned to such small account that
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  Speaker 1: he caught ever to reckon what he got that way,
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  Speaker 1: after having for some time carried on the business of
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  Speaker 1: a messenger, and gained thereby great wealth. He went home
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  Speaker 1: to his father, where it was impossible to express the
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  Speaker 1: joy they were all in. At his return. He made
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  Speaker 1: the family very well to do, brought places for his
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  Speaker 1: father and brothers, and by that means settled them very
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  Speaker 1: handsomely in the world, and in the meantime rose high
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  Speaker 1: in the King's favor. The moral at many children. Parents
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  Speaker 1: don't repine if they are handsome in their judgment, shine,
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  Speaker 1: polite in carriage, are in bodies, strong, graceful in mean
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  Speaker 1: and elegant in tongue. But if perchance an offspring prove
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  Speaker 1: but weak him, they revel, laugh at, to fraud and cheat.
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  Speaker 1: Such is the wretched world's cursed way. And yet sometimes
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  Speaker 1: this urchin whom despised we see, through unforeseen events, doth honor,
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  Speaker 1: get and fortune bring to all his family. End of
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  Speaker 2: Section nine of the Fairy Tales of Charles peaut This
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot org. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perraut by
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  Speaker 2: Charles Perraut, translated by Robert Samber and J. E. Mansion,
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  Speaker 2: Section nine, The Ridiculous Wishes. In days long passed, they
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  Speaker 2: lived a poor woodcutter who found life very hard. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: it was his lot to toil for little Gerdon, And
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  Speaker 2: although he was young and happily married, there were moments
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  Speaker 2: when he wished himself dead and below the ground. One day,
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  Speaker 2: while at his work, he was again lamenting his fate.
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  Speaker 2: Some men, he said, have only to make known their
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  Speaker 2: desires and straightway these are granted, and they are every
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  Speaker 2: wish fulfilled. But it has availed me little to wish
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  Speaker 2: for aught, for the gods are deaf to prayers of
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  Speaker 2: such as I. As he spoke these words, there was
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  Speaker 2: a great noise of thunder, and Jupiter appeared before him,
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  Speaker 2: wielding his mighty thunderbolts. Our poor man was stricken with fear,
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  Speaker 2: and threw himself on the ground. My Lord, he said,
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  Speaker 2: forget my foolish speech, Heed not my wishes, but cease
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  Speaker 2: thy thundering. Have no fear, answered Jupiter. I have heard
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  Speaker 2: thy plaint and have come hither to show thee how
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  Speaker 2: greatly thou dost wrong me, hark I, who am sovereign
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  Speaker 2: lord of this world, promised to grant in full the
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  Speaker 2: first three wishes, which it will please THEE to utter.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever these may be, consider well what things can bring
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  Speaker 2: THEE joy and prosperity. And as thy happiness is at stake,
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  Speaker 2: be not over hasty, but revolve the matter in thy mind.
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  Speaker 2: Having thus spoken, Jupiter withdrew himself and made his assent
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  Speaker 2: to Olympus. As for our wood cutter, he blithely corded
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  Speaker 2: his faggot, and, throwing it over his shoulder, bade for
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  Speaker 2: his home to one so light of heart. The load
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  Speaker 2: also seemed light, and his thoughts were merry. As he
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  Speaker 2: strode along, many a wish came into his mind, but
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  Speaker 2: he was resolved to seek the advice of his wife,
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  Speaker 2: who was a young woman of good understanding. He had
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  Speaker 2: soon reached his cottage, and, casting down his faggot, behold me, Fanny,
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  Speaker 2: he said, make up the fire and spread the board,
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  Speaker 2: and let there be no stint. We are wealthy, Fanny,
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  Speaker 2: wealthy for evermore. We have only to wish for whatsoever
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  Speaker 2: we may desire. Thereupon he told her the story of
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  Speaker 2: what had befallen that day. Fanny, whose mind was quick
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  Speaker 2: and active, immediately conceived many plans for the advancement of
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  Speaker 2: their fortune. But she approved her husband's resolve to act
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  Speaker 2: with prudence and circumspection. Twere a pity, said she, to
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  Speaker 2: spoil our chances through impatience. We had best take counsel
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  Speaker 2: of the night and wish no wishes until tomorrow. That
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  Speaker 2: is well spoken, answered Harry. Meanwhile, fetch a bottle of
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  Speaker 2: our best and we shall drink to our good fortune.
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  Speaker 2: Fanny brought a bottle from the store behind the faggots,
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  Speaker 2: and our man enjoyed his ease, leaning back in his chair,
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  Speaker 2: with his toes to the fire and his goblet in
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  Speaker 2: his hand. What fine glowing embers, he said, and what
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  Speaker 2: a fine toasting fire. I wish we had a black
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  Speaker 2: pudding at hand. Hardly had he spoken these words when
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  Speaker 2: his wife beheld, to her great astonishment a long black pudding, which,
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  Speaker 2: issuing from a corner of the hearth, came winding and
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  Speaker 2: wriggling towards her. She uttered a cry of fear, and
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  Speaker 2: then again exclaimed in dismay when she perceived that this
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  Speaker 2: strange occurrence was due to the wish which her husband
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  Speaker 2: had so rashly and foolishly spoken. Turning upon him in
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  Speaker 2: her anger and disappointment, she called the poor man all
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  Speaker 2: the abusive names that she could think of. What she
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  Speaker 2: said to him, when you can call for a kingdom
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  Speaker 2: for gold, pearls, rubies, diamonds, for princely garments and wealth, untold,
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  Speaker 2: is this the time to set your mind upon black puddings? Nay,
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  Speaker 2: answered the man, twas a thoughtless speech and a sad mistake.
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  Speaker 2: But I shall now, I'll be on my guard and
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  Speaker 2: shall do better next time. Who knows that you will
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  Speaker 2: returned his wife, once a witless fool, always a witless fool,
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  Speaker 2: and giving free rein to her vexation and ill temper,
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  Speaker 2: she continued to upbraid her husband until his anger also
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  Speaker 2: was stirred, and he had well nigh made a second
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  Speaker 2: bid and wished himself a widower enough woman, He cried,
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  Speaker 2: at last, put a cheek upon thy frowed tongue. Whoever
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  Speaker 2: heard such impertinence as this, a plague on the shrew
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  Speaker 2: and on her pudding, would to heaven it hung at
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  Speaker 2: the end of her nose. No sooner had the husband
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  Speaker 2: given voice to these words when the wish was straightway granted,
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  Speaker 2: and the long coil of black pudding appeared grafted to
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  Speaker 2: the angry dame's nose. Our man paused when he beheld
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  Speaker 2: what he had wrought. Fanny was a comely young woman,
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  Speaker 2: and blessed with good looks and truth to tell, this
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  Speaker 2: new ornament did not set off her beauty. Yet it
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  Speaker 2: offered one advantage that, as it hung right before her mouth,
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  Speaker 2: it would thus effectively curb her speech. So, having now
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  Speaker 2: but one one wish left, he had all but resolved
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  Speaker 2: to make good use of it without further delay, and
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  Speaker 2: before any other mischance could befall to wish himself a
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  Speaker 2: kingdom of his own. He was about to speak the word,
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  Speaker 2: when he was stayed by a sudden thought. It is true,
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  Speaker 2: he said to himself, that there is none so great
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  Speaker 2: as a king. But what of the queen that must
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  Speaker 2: share his dignity with? What grace? Would she sit beside
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  Speaker 2: me on the throne with a yard of black pudding
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  Speaker 2: for a nose? In this dilemma, he resolved to put
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  Speaker 2: the case to Fanny, and to leave her to decide
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  Speaker 2: whether she would rather be a queen with this most
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  Speaker 2: horrible appendage marring her good looks, or a man a
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  Speaker 2: peasant wife. But with her shapely nose relieved of this
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  Speaker 2: untoward edition, Fanny's mind was soon made up, although she
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  Speaker 2: had dreamt of a crown and scepter. Yet a woman's
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  Speaker 2: first wish is always to please. To this great desire,
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  Speaker 2: all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be fair
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  Speaker 2: and drug it than be a queen with an ugly face.
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  Speaker 2: Thus our woodcutter did not change his state, did not
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  Speaker 2: become a potentate, nor fill his pr with golden crowns.
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  Speaker 2: He was thankful enough to use his remaining wish to
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  Speaker 2: a more humble purpose, and forthwith relieved his wife of
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  Speaker 2: her encumbrance. The moral Ah, So it is that miserable man,
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  Speaker 2: by nature, fickle, blind, unwise, in rash oft, fails to
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  Speaker 2: reap a harvest from great gifts bestowed upon him by
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly gods, and of the ridiculous wishes.
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  Speaker 1: Section ten of the Fairy Tales of Charles Perot. This
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  Speaker 1: is a LibriVox recording. All liberyvox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 1: libriyvox dot org. Recording by Algpug The Fairy Tales of
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  Speaker 1: Chaallespeerot by Charles Perot, translated by Robert Samber and J. E. Mansion,
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  Speaker 1: Section ten donkey skin. Once upon a time there was
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  Speaker 1: a king so great, so beloved by his people, and
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  Speaker 1: so respected by all his neighbors and allies, that one
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  Speaker 1: might almost say he was the happiest monarch alive. His
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  Speaker 1: good fortune was made even greater by the choice he
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  Speaker 1: had made for wife of a princess as beautiful as
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  Speaker 1: she was virtuous, with whom he lived in perfect happiness.
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  Speaker 1: Now of this chaste marriage was born a daughter endowed
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  Speaker 1: with so many gifts that they had no regret, because
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  Speaker 1: other children were not given to them. Magnificence, good taste,
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  Speaker 1: and abundance reigned in the palace. Who were wise and
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  Speaker 1: clever ministers, virtuous and devoted courtiers, faithful and diligent servants.
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  Speaker 1: The spacious stables were filled with the most beautiful horses
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and covets of rich comparison. But what
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  Speaker 1: most astonished strangers who came to admire them was to
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  Speaker 1: see in the fire esstall a master donkey with great
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  Speaker 1: long ears. Now it was not for a whim, but
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  Speaker 1: for a good reason that the king had given this
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  Speaker 1: donkey a particular and distinguished place. The special qualities of
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  Speaker 1: this rare animal deserved the distinction, since nature had made
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  Speaker 1: it in so extraordinary a way that its litter, instead
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  Speaker 1: of being like that of other donkeys, was covered every
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  Speaker 1: morning with an abundance of beautiful golden crowns and golden
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  Speaker 1: lewis of every kind, which were collected daily. Since the
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  Speaker 1: vicissitudes of life wait on kings as much as on
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  Speaker 1: their subjects, and good is always mingled with ill, it
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  Speaker 1: so befell that the queen was suddenly attacked by a
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  Speaker 1: fatal illness, and in spite of science and the skill
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  Speaker 1: of the doctors, no remedy could be found. There was
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  Speaker 1: great mourning throughout the land. The king, who, notwithstanding the
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  Speaker 1: famous proverb that marriage is the termb of love, was
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  Speaker 1: deeply attached to his wife, was distressed beyond measure, and
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  Speaker 1: made fervent vows to all the temples in his kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and offered to give his life for that of his
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  Speaker 1: beloved consort. But he invoked the gods and the fairies
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  Speaker 1: in vain. The queen, feeling her last hour, approach, said
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  Speaker 1: to her husband, who was dissolved in tears. It is
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  Speaker 1: well that I should speak to you of a certain
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  Speaker 1: matter before I die, if perchance you should desire to
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  Speaker 1: marry again. These words, the king broke into piteous cries,
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  Speaker 1: took his wife's hands in his own, and assured her
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  Speaker 1: that it was useless to speak to him of a
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  Speaker 1: second marriage. No, mah, dear spouse, he said, at last,
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  Speaker 1: speak to me, rather of how I may follow you
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  Speaker 1: the state, continued the queen, with finality, which but increased
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  Speaker 1: the laments of the king. The state departs successes, and
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  Speaker 1: since I have only given you a daughter, it will
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  Speaker 1: urge you to beget sons who resemble you. But I
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  Speaker 1: ask you earnestly not to give way to the persuasions
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  Speaker 1: of your people until you have found a princess more
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and more perfectly fashioned than I. I beg you
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  Speaker 1: to swear this to me, and then I shall die
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  Speaker 1: content perchance. The queen, who did not lack self esteem,
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  Speaker 1: exacted this oath firmly, believing that there was not her
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  Speaker 1: equal in the world, and so felt assured that the
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  Speaker 1: king would never marry again. Be this as it may.
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  Speaker 1: At length she died, and never did husband make so
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  Speaker 1: much lamentation the king wept and sobbed day and night,
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  Speaker 1: and the punctilious fulfillment of the rites of widowhood, even
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  Speaker 1: the smallest, was his sole occupation. But even great griefs
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  Speaker 1: do not last for ever. After a time, the magnates
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  Speaker 1: of the state assembled and came to the King, urging
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  Speaker 1: him to take another wife. At first, this request seemed
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  Speaker 1: hard to him and made him shed fresh tears. He
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  Speaker 1: pleaded the vows he had made to the queen and
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  Speaker 1: defied his counselors to find a princess more beautiful and
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  Speaker 1: better fashioned than was she, thinking this to be impossible.
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  Speaker 1: But the council treated the promise as a trifle, and
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  Speaker 1: said that it mattered little about beauty if the queen
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  Speaker 1: were but virtuous and fruitful, for the state needed princes
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  Speaker 1: for its peace and prosperity. And though in truth the
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  Speaker 1: princess his daughter, had all equalities requisite for making a
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  Speaker 1: great queen, yet of necessity she must choose an alien
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  Speaker 1: for her husband, and then the stranger would take her
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  Speaker 1: away with him. If, on the other hand, he remained
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  Speaker 1: in her country and shared the throne with her, their
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  Speaker 1: children would not be considered to be a pure native stock,
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  Speaker 1: and so there being no prince of his name, neighboring
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  Speaker 1: peoples would stir up and the kingdom would be ruined.
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  Speaker 1: The king, impressed by these considerations, promised that he would
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  Speaker 1: think over the matter, and so search was made among
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  Speaker 1: all the marriageable princesses for one that would suit him.
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  Speaker 1: Every day, charming portraits were brought him, but none gave
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  Speaker 1: promise of the beauty of his late queen. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: coming to a decision, he brooded over his sorrow, until
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  Speaker 1: in the end his reason left him. In his delusions,
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  Speaker 1: he imagined himself once more a young man. He thought
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  Speaker 1: the princess, his daughter, in her youth and beauty, was
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  Speaker 1: his queen as he had known her in the days
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  Speaker 1: of their courtship, and living thus in the past, he
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  Speaker 1: urged the unhappy girl to speedily become his bride. The
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  Speaker 1: young princess, who was virtuous and chaste, threw herself at
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  Speaker 1: the feet of the king, her father, and conjured him
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  Speaker 1: with all the eloquence she could command, not to constrain
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  Speaker 1: her to consent to his unnatural desire. The king, in
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  Speaker 1: his madness, could not understand the reason of her desperate reluctance,
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  Speaker 1: and asked an old druid priest to set the conscience
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  Speaker 1: of the princess at rest. Now this druid, less religious
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  Speaker 1: than ambitious, sacrificed the cause of innocence and virtue to
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  Speaker 1: the favor of so great a monarch, And instead of
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  Speaker 1: trying to restore the king to his right mind, he
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  Speaker 1: encouraged him in his delusion. The young princess beside herself
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  Speaker 1: with misery. At last bethought her of the Lilac Fairy,
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  Speaker 1: her godmother. Determined to consult her. She set out that
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  Speaker 1: same night in a pretty little carriage drawn by a
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  Speaker 1: great sheep who knew all the roads. When she arrived,
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  Speaker 1: the fairy, who loved the princess, told her that she
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  Speaker 1: knew all she had come to say, but that she
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  Speaker 1: need have no fear, for nothing would harm her if
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  Speaker 1: only she faithfully fulfilled the fairy's injunctions. For my dear child,
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  Speaker 1: she said to her, it would be it'd sin to
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  Speaker 1: submit to your father's wishes, but you can avoid the
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  Speaker 1: necessity without displeasing him. Tell him that to satisfy whim
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  Speaker 1: you have, he must give you a dress. The culder
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  Speaker 1: of the weather never in spite of all his loure,
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  Speaker 1: in his power will he be able to give you that.
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  Speaker 1: The princess thanked her godmother from her heart, and the
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  Speaker 1: next morning spoke to the king as the fairy had
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  Speaker 1: counseled her, and protested that no one would win her
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  Speaker 1: hand unless he gave her a dress the color of
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  Speaker 1: the weather. The king, overjoyed and hopeful, called together the
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  Speaker 1: most skillful workman and demanded this robe of them, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: they should be hanged. But he was saved from resorting
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  Speaker 1: to this extreme measure, since on the second day they
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  Speaker 1: brought the much desired robe. The heavens are not a
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  Speaker 1: more beautiful blue were now girdled with clouds of gold
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  Speaker 1: than was that lovely dress when it was unfolded. The
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  Speaker 1: princess was very sad because of it, and did not
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  Speaker 1: know what to do. Once more, she went to her
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  Speaker 1: fairy godmother, who, astonished that her plan had been foiled,
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  Speaker 1: now told her to ask for another gown the color
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  Speaker 1: of the moon. The king again sought out the most
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  Speaker 1: clever workmen and expressly commanded them to make a dress
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  Speaker 1: the color of the moon, And woe betide them if
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  Speaker 1: between the giving of the order and the bringing of
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  Speaker 1: the dress, more than twenty four hours should elapse. The princess,
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  Speaker 1: though pleased with the dress when it was delivered, gave
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  Speaker 1: way to distress when she was with her women and
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  Speaker 1: her nurse. The Lilac fairy, who knew all, hastened to
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: comfort her and said, either I am greatly deceived, or
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: it is certain that if you ask for a dress
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: the color of the sun, we shall at last baffle
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: the king your father, for it would never be possible
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: to mix such your going. In any case, we should
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: gain time. So the princess asked for yet another gown,
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: as the fairy bade her. The infatuated king could refuse
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: his daughter nothing, and he gave, without regret, all the
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: diamonds and rubies in his crown to aid this superb work.
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: Nothing was to be spared that could make the dress
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: as beautiful as the sun. And indeed, when the dress appeared,
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: all those who unfolded were obliged to close their eyes,
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: so much were they dazzled, and truth to tell, green
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: spectacles and smoked glasses date from that time. What was
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: the princess to do? Never had so beautiful and so
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: artistic a robe been seen. She was dumbfounded, and pretending
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: that as brilliance had hurt her eyes, she retired to
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: her chamber, where she found the fairy awaiting her. On
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: seeing the dress like the sun, the lilac fairy became
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: red with rage. Oh this to him, my child, she
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: said to the princess, we have put the king to
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: terrible proof. It spoke of his madness. I think you
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: will be a little astonished by the request a counsel
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: you to make of him. It is that they should
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: give you the skin of that us she loves dearly,
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: and which supplays himself profusely with the means of pearing
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 1: all his expenses. Go and do not fear to tell
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: him that you want this skin. The princess, overjoyed at
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: finding it at another avenue of escape, for she thought
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: that her father could never bring himself to sacrifice the ass,
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: went to find him and unfolded to him her latest desire.
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: Although the king was astonished by this whim, he did
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: not hesitate to satisfy it. The poor ass was sacrificed,
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: and the skin brought with due ceremony to the princess, who,
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: seeing no other way of avoiding her ill fortune, was desperate.
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: At that moment, her godmother arrived. What are you doing,
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: my child, she asked, seeing the princess tearing her hair,
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: her beautiful cheeks stained with tears. This is the most
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: happy morment of be life. Wrap yourself in the skin,
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: leave the palace, and walk so long as you can
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: find groan to carry you. When one sacrifices everything the virtue,
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: the gods knew how to meet out reward. Go and
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: I will take care that your possessions follow you in
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: whatever police you rest. Your chest with your clothes, and
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: your jewels will follow your steps. And here is my
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 1: wand which I will give you. Tap the ground with
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: it when you have near to the chest, and will
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: appear before your eys. But he's to set forth and
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: do not delay. The princess embraced her godmother many times
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: and begged her not to forsake her. Then, after she
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: had smeared herself with soot from the chimney, she wrapped
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: herself in that ugly skin and went out from the
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: magnificent palace without being recognized by a single person. The
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: absence of the princess caused a great commotion. The king,
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: who had caused a sumptuous banquet to be prepared was inconsolable.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: He sent out more than a hundred gendarmes and more
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: than a thousand musketeers in quest of her, But the
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: Lilac fairy made her invisible to the cleverest seekers, and
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: thus she escaped their vigilance. Meanwhile, the princess walked far, far,
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: and even farther away. After a time she sought for
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: a resting place, but although out of charity people gave
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: her food, she was so disheveled and dirty that no
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: one wanted to keep her. At length, she came to
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: a beautiful town, at the gate of which was a
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: small farm. Now the farmer's wife had need of a
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: wench to wash the dishes and to attend to the
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: geese and the pigs, And, seeing so dirty, a vagrant
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: offered to engage her. The princess, who was now much fatigued,
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: accepted joyfully. She was putting into a recess in the kitchen,
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: where for the first day she was subjected to the
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: coarse jokes of the men's servants. So dirty and unpleasant
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: did the donkey's skin make her appear. At last, they
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: tired of their pleasant trees Moreover, she was so attentive
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: to her work that the farmer's wife took her under
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: her protection. She minded the sheep and penned them up
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: when it was necess and she took the geese out
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: to feed with such intelligence that it seemed as if
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: she had never done anything else. Everything that her beautiful
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: hands undertook was done well. One day, she was sitting
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: near a clear fountain, where she often repaired to bemoan
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: her sad condition. When she thought she would look at
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: herself in the water, the horrible donkey skin which covered
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: her from head to toe revolted her. Ashamed, she washed
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: her face in her hands, which became whiter than ivory,
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: and once again her lovely complexion took its natural freshness.
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 8: The joy of.
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: Finding herself so beautiful filled her with a desire to
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: bathe in the pearl, and this she did, but she
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: had to don her unworthy skin again before she returned
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: to the farm. By good fortune, the next day chanced
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: to be a holiday, and so she had leisure to
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: tap for her chest with a fairy's wand arranged her toilet,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: powered her beautiful hair, and put on the lovely gown,
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 1: which was the color of the weather, but the room
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: was so small that the train could not be properly
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: spread out. The beautiful princess looked at herself, and with
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: good reason, admired her appearance so much that she resolved
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: to wear her magnificent dresses in turn on holidays and
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: Sundays for her own amusement, And this she regularly did.
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: She entwined flowers and diamonds in her lovely hair with
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: admirable art, and often she saw that she had no
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: witness of her beauty save the sheep and geese, who
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: loved her just as much. In the horrible donkey skin
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: after which she had been named, at the farm one holiday,
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: when donkey Skin had put in her son hued dress,
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: the son of the king, to whom the farm belonged,
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: alighted there to rest on his return from the hunt.
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: This prince was young and handsome, beloved of his father
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: and of the Queen his mother, and adored by the people.
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: After he had partaken of the simple collation which was
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: offered him, he set out to inspect the farm yard
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: and all its nooks and corners. In going thus from
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: place to place, he entered a dark alley at the
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: bottom of which was a closed door. Curiosity made him
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: put his eye to the keyhole. Imagine his astonishment at
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: seeing a princess so beautiful and so richly dressed, and
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: withal of so noble and dignified a mien that he
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 1: took her to be a divinity. The impetuosity of his
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: feelings at this moment would have made him force the door,
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: had it not been for the respect with which that
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: charming figure had filled him. It was with difficulty that
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: he withdrew from this gloomy little alley, intent on discovering
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: who the inmate of the tiny room might be. He
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: was told that it was a scullion called donkey's skin
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: because of the skin which she always wore, and that
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: she was so dirty and unpleasant that no one took
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: any notice of her or even spoke to her. She
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: had just been taken out of pity to look after
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: the geese. The prince, though a little satisfied by this information,
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: saw that these dense people knew no more and that
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: it was useless to question them. So he returned to
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: the palace of the King his father, beyond words in love,
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: having continually before his eyes the beautiful image of the goddess,
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: whom he had seen through the keyhole. He was so
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: full of regret that he had not knocked at the door,
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: and promised himself that he would not fail to do
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: so next time. But the ferventcy of his love caused
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: him such great agitation that the same night he was
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: seized by a terrible fever and was soon at death's door.
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: The queen, who had no other child, was in despair,
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: because all remedies proved useless. In vain, she promised great
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: rewards to the doctors. Though they exerted all their skill,
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: nothing would cure the prince. At last, they decided that
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: some great sorrow had caused this terrible fever. They told
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: the Queen, who full of tenderness for her son, went
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 1: to him and begged him to tell her his trouble.
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: She declared that even if it was a matter of
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: giving him the crown, his father would yield the throne
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: to him without regret. Or if he desired some princess,
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: even though there should be war with the king, her
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: father and their subjects should, with reason complain, all should
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: be sacrificed to obtain what he wished.
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 8: She implored him with.
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: Tears not to die, since their life depended on his.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: The Queen did not finish this touching discourse without moving
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: the prince to tears. Madam, he said, at last, in
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: a very feeble voice, I am not so beast that
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: I desire the crowd of my father. Rather, may Heaven
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: grant him life for many years, and that I may
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: always be the most faithful and the most respectful of
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: his subjects. As to the princesses that you speak of,
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: I have never yet thought of marriage, and you well
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: know that subject as I am to your wishes, I
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: shall obey you always, even though it be painful to me. Ah,
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: my son, replied the Queen. We will spurn nothing to
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 1: save your life, but my dear child, save mine and
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: that of the King your father, by telling me what
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: you desire, and be assured that you shall love it.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: Madam, he said, since you would have me tell you
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: my thought, I obey you. It would indeed be a
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: sin to place in danger two lives. So dear to
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: me know, my mother, that I wish donkey skin to
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: make me a cake, and to have it brought to
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: me when it is ready. The Queen, astonished at this,
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: strange name. Asked who donkey Skin might be. It is, Madam,
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: replied one of her officers, who had by chance seen
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: this girl. It is the most ugly creature imaginable, after
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: the wolf. As Slatu lodges at ya farum and mange
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: your geese. It matters not, said the Queen. My son,
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: on his way home from the cheese, has perchance eaten
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: of her cakes. It is a whim such as those
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: who are sick do sometimes have. In a word, I
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: wish that Donkey's skin, Since Donkey's skin it is, make
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: him presently a cake. A messenger ran to the farm
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: and told Donkey Skin that she was to make a
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: cake for the Prince as well as she possibly could.
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: Some believed that Donkey's Skin had been aware of the
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: Prince in her heart at the moment when he had
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: put his eye to the keyhole, and then looking from
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: her little window, she had seen him so young, so handsome,
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: and so shapely, that the remembrance of him had remained,
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: and that often the thought of him had cost her
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: some size. Be that as it may, Donkey's Skin, i'd
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: having seen him, or having heard him spoken of with praise,
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 1: was overjoyed to think that she might become known to him.
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: She shut herself in a little room, threw off the
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: ugly skin, bathed her face and hands, arranged her hair,
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: put on a beautiful corsage of bright silver and an
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: equally beautiful petticoat, and then set herself to make the
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 1: much desired cake. She took the finest flour, and the
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 1: newest eggs and freshest butter, and while she was working them,
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: whether by design or no, a ring which she had
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: on her finger, fell into the cake and was mixed
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: in it. When the cooking was done, she muffled herself
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: in her horrible skin and gave the cake to the messenger,
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 1: asking him for any news of the prince. But the
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 1: man would not deign to reply, and without a word,
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: ran quickly back to the palace. The Prince took the
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 1: cake greedily from the man's hands and ate it with
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: such veracity that the doctors who were present and did
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: not fail to say that this haste was not a
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: good sign. Indeed, the prince came near to being choked
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: by the ring, which he nearly swallowed in one of
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: the pieces of cake, but he drew it cleverly from
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: his mouth, and his desire for the cake was forgotten
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: as he examined the fine emerald set in a gold
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: keeper ring, a ring so small that he knew it
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: could only be worn on the prettiest little finger in
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 1: the world. He kissed the ring a thousand times, put
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: it under his pillow, and drew it out. Every moment
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: that he thought himself unobserved the torment that he gave himself,
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: planning how he might see her, to whom the ring belonged,
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 1: not daring to believe that if he asked for donkey's skin,
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: she would be allowed to come, and not daring to
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 1: speak of what he had seen through the keyhole for
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: fear that he would be laughed at for a dreamer,
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: brought back the fever with great violence. The doctors, not
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: knowing what more to do, declared to the Queen that
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: the prince's malady was love, whereupon the queen and the
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 1: disconsolate king ran to their son. My son, my dear son,
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 1: cried the affected monarch. Tell us the name of her,
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: whom you desire, We swear that we will give her
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: to you, even those she were the vilest of slaves.
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: The queen, embracing him, agreed with all that the king
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 1: had said, And the prince, moved by their tears and caresses,
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: said to them, my father and my mother, I in
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: no way desire to make a marriage which is displeasing
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: to you, And drawing the emerald from under his pillow,
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: he added, to prove the truth of this, I desire
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: to marry her to whom this ring belongs. It is
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: not likely that she who earns so pretty a ring
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: is a rustic or a peasant. The King and the
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 1: queen took the ring, examined it with great curiosity, and
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 1: agreed with the prince that it could only belong to
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: the daughter of a good house. Then the King, having
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: embraced his son and entreated him to get well, went out.
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: He ordered the drums and fifes and trumpets to be
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 1: sounded throughout the town, and the heralds to cry that
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: she whose finger a certain ring would fit, should marry
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 1: the heir to the throne. First the princesses arrived, then
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 1: the duchesses, and the marquesses and the baronesses. But though
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: they did all they could to make their fingers small,
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: none could put on the ring. So the country girls
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: had to be tried. But pretty though they all were,
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: they all had fingers that were too fat. The Prince,
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: who was feeling better, made the trial himself. At last
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: it was the turn of the chambermaids, but they succeeded
• 2:45:49
  Speaker 1: no better then when everyone else had tried, the Prince
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: asked for the kitchen maids, the scullions, and the sheep girls.
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: They were all brought to the palace for their call.
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: Horse red, short fingers would hardly go through the golden hoop.
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: As far as the nail, you have not brought that
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: donkey's skin? Who made me the cake? Said the Prince.
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: Everyone laughed and said no, so dirty and unpleasant was she.
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: Let some one fetch her at once, said the King.
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: It shall not be said that I left out the lowliest.
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 1: And the servants ran, laughing and mocking to find the
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 1: goose girl. The princess, who had heard the drums and
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: the cries of the heralds, had no doubt that the
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: ring was the cause of this uproar. Now she loved
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: the Prince, and as true love is timorous and has
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: no vanity, she was in perpetual fear that some other
• 2:46:46
  Speaker 1: lady would be found to have a finger as small
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: as hers. Great then was her joy when the messengers
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: came and knocked at her door, since she knew they
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: were seeking the owner of the right finger on which
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: to set her ring. Some impulse had moved her to
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 1: arranch her hair with great care, and to put on
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: her beautiful silver corsage and the petticoat full of furbelows
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: and silver ace studded with emeralds. At the first knock,
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: she quickly covered her finery with the donkey's skin and
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: opened the door. The visitors, in derision, told her that
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: the king had sent for her in order to marry
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 1: her to his son. Then, with loud peals of laughter,
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: they led her to the Prince, who was astonished at
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 1: the garb of this girl, and dared not believe that
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: it was she whom he had seen so majestic and
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: so beautiful. Sad and confounded, he said, is it you
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: who lodge at the bottom of that dark alley in
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: the thirty yard of the farm? Yes, your highness, she replied,
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: shew me your hand, said the Prince, trembling and heaving
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: a deep sigh. Imagine how astonished every one was The
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: King and the Queen, the chambermaids, and all the courtiers
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: were unfounded when from beneath that black and dirty skin
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: came a delicate, little white and rose pink hand, and
• 2:48:07
  Speaker 1: the rings slipped without difficulty on to the prettiest little
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: finger in the world. Then, by a little movement which
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: the princess had made, the skin fell from her shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and so enchanting was her guise that the Prince, weak
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  Speaker 1: though he was, fell on his knees and held her
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  Speaker 1: so closely that she blushed. But that was scarcely noticed,
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  Speaker 1: for the King and Queen came to embrace her heartily
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  Speaker 1: and to ask her if she would marry their son.
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  Speaker 1: The princess, confused by all these caresses and by the
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  Speaker 1: love of the handsome young prince, was about to thank them,
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly the ceiling opened, and the Lilac Fairy descended
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  Speaker 1: in a chariot made of the branches and flowers from
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  Speaker 1: which she took her name, and with great charm, told
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  Speaker 1: the princess's story. The King and Queen, overjoyed to know
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  Speaker 1: that Donkey Skin was a great princess, redoubled their caresses,
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  Speaker 1: for the prince was even more sensible of her virtue,
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  Speaker 1: and his love increased as the fairy unfolded her tale.
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  Speaker 1: His impatience to marry her, indeed, were so great that
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  Speaker 1: he could scarcely allow time for the necessary preparations for
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  Speaker 1: the grand wedding, which was their due.
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  Speaker 8: The King and Queen, now.
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  Speaker 1: Entirely devoted to their daughter in law, overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 8: Her with affection.
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  Speaker 1: She had declared that she could not marry the prince
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  Speaker 1: without the consent of the King, her father, so he
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  Speaker 1: was the first to whom an invitation to the wedding
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  Speaker 1: was sent. He was not, however, told the name of
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  Speaker 1: the bride, the Lilac fairy, who, as was right presided
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  Speaker 1: over all, had recommended this course to prevent trouble. Kings
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  Speaker 1: came from all the countries round, some in sedan chairs,
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  Speaker 1: some in beautiful carriages. Those who came from the most
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  Speaker 1: distant countries rode on elephants and tigers and eagles. But
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  Speaker 1: the most magnificent and most glorious of all was the
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  Speaker 1: father of the princess. He had happily recovered at his reason,
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  Speaker 1: and had married a queen who was a widow and
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  Speaker 1: very beautiful, but by whom he had no child. The
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  Speaker 1: princess ran to him, and he recognized her at once
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  Speaker 1: and embraced her with great tenderness. Before she had time
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  Speaker 1: to throw herself on her knees, the king and queen
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  Speaker 1: presented their son to him, and the happiness of all
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  Speaker 1: was complete. The nuptials were celebrated with all imaginable pomp,
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  Speaker 1: but the young couple were hardly aware of the ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: so wrapped up were they in one another. In spite
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  Speaker 1: of the protests of the noble hearted young man, the
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  Speaker 1: prince's father caused his son to be crowned the same day, and,
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  Speaker 1: kissing his hand, placed him on the throne. The celebrations
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  Speaker 1: of this illustrious marriage lasted nearly three months, but the
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  Speaker 1: love of the two young people would have endured for
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  Speaker 1: more than a hundred years had they outlived that age,
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  Speaker 1: so great was their affection for one another. The moral
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  Speaker 1: it scarce may be believed this tale of donkey skin.
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  Speaker 1: But laughing children in the home, yea. Mothers and grandmothers
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  Speaker 1: too are little moved by facts. By them twill be received.
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  Speaker 1: End of section ten. Donkey Skin, end of the Fairy
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  Speaker 1: Tales of Charles Perrall by Charles Perral translated by Robert
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  Speaker 1: Samber and J. E.
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  Speaker 8: Mansion