![]() ![]() She was so beautiful that everybody looked at her, and wondered who she was and the Prince asked her to dance with him, and afterwards would dance with no one else.īut she made haste to leave a little before the hour fixed, and had time to undress before her sisters came home. The Lord Chamberlain bowed low to her, thinking she must be a very great lady by her dress and carriage, and he showed her at once into the ball-room. The Fairy, when she was gone, returned to Fairyland.Ĭinderella was received at the King’s palace with great respect. Then she stepped into her coach and drove off, with her footmen behind, in great style. I approve of pleasure, but not of dissipation, and I expect that you will show your gratitude by obeying me.”Ĭinderella kissed and thanked her godmother. If you do not your dress will return to its original rags. But remember, you must leave the room before the clock strikes eleven. “Now go to the ball, my love,” she said, “and enjoy yourself. Her old shoes became a charming pair of glass slippers, which shone like diamonds. Diamonds shone in her hair and on her neck and arms, and her kind godmother thought she had seldom seen so lovely a girl. Next, the Fairy touched Cinderella’s rags, and they became rich satin robes, trimmed with point lace. Two mice were turned into footmen four grasshoppers into white horses. The girl obeyed, and a touch of the Fairy’s wand turned him into a very smart coachman. Then she desired Cinderella to go to the trap, and bring her a rat. Bring me a large pumpkin.”Ĭinderella obeyed, and the Fairy, touching it with her wand, turned it into a grand coach. ![]() “Do not cry, Cinderella,” she said “you also shall go to the ball, because you are a kind, good girl. When they were gone, Cinderella, whose heart was very sad, sat down and cried bitterly but as she sat sorrowful, thinking of the unkindness of her sisters, a voice called to her from the garden, and she went out to see who was there. “Take you, indeed!” answered the elder sister, with a sneer “it is no place for a cinder-sifter: stay at home and do your work.” “I wish you would take me to the ball with you,” said Cinderella, meekly. And they made her dress them for the ball, but never thought of allowing her to go there. It happened, when Cinderella was about seventeen years old, that the King of that country gave a ball, to which all ladies of the land, and among the rest the young girl’s sisters, were invited. She was a very sweet-tempered, good girl, however, and everybody (except her cruel sisters) loved her. As she grew older they made her work as a servant, and even sift the cinders on which account they used to call her in mockery “Cinderella.” It was not her real name, but she became afterwards so well known by it that her proper one has been forgotten. Now, Cinderella’s sisters did not love her, and were very unkind to her. Cinderella’s mother died while she was a very little child, leaving her to the care of her father and her step-sisters, who were very much older than herself for Cinderella’s father had been twice married, and her mother was his second wife.
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