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Beauty & the Beast

 

In the beginning, Beauty was frightened of the Beast, and shuddered at the sight of it.

Then she found that, in spite of the monster's awful head, her horror of it was gradually fading as time went by. She had one of the finest rooms in the Castle, and sat for hours, embroidering in front of the fire.

And the Beast would sit, for hours on end, only a short distance away, silently gazing at her.

Then it started to say a few kind words, till in the end, Beauty was amazed to discover that she was actually enjoying its conversation.

The days passed, and Beauty and the Beast became good friends.

Then one day, the Beast asked the girl to be his wife.

Taken by surprise, Beauty did not know what to say. Marry such an ugly monster? She would rather die! But she did not want to hurt the feelings of one who, after all, had been kind to her. And she remembered too that she owed it her own life as well as her father's.