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It should not be treated as a Cinderella, or as a last resort, as is often done too late, and so without results, because too much time is needed to regain it, when once lost, but should be cherished and cultivated as a guardian angel and guide, like no other. Without its aid all voices lack brilliancy and carrying power; they are like a head without a brain.
After it all the country beaux flocked around to pay her attention, and she looked upon them as Cinderella might have viewed her other suitors after the prince had danced with her at the ball. Disgusting! Dick came to me after a while and said, "Charley, you are so stunning in that velvet coat that all the girls are in love with you." "I know it, Dick," I said in a complaining voice "I know it.
Another touch of the old woman's wand and Cinderella herself stood dressed in a gown as blue as the blue sky above and all covered from top to toe with shining silver stars. She was just going to step into the carriage and drive away when, looking down, she saw that her feet were quite bare, she had no shoes on. The fairy saw too. She smiled and took a pair of little slippers from her pocket.
It sums up the enormous amount of research that has been going on in Europe for the last hundred years, on the parallelism and provenance of the folk-tales of Europe, and in a measure does for all the Grimm stories what Miss Roalfe Cox did for Cinderella.
She remembered now the thing that her father had said on the night after "Cinderella." "If I had my way, it should be an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. For every man that they have tortured, we must torture one of theirs. For every child mutilated, we must mutilate a child for every woman " Her Daddy had said that. Her kind and tender Daddy. Was that what the war made of men?
"There's Cinderella; an' there's Ally Babby or the fifty thieves if it wasn't forty I'm not rightly sure which, but it don't much matter; an' there's Jack the Giant-killer, an' Jack and the Pea-stalk no; let me see; it was a beanstalk, I think anyhow, it was the stalk of a vegetable o' some sort. Why, I wonder it never struck me before to tell you all about them tales."
They danced and played, and sang and talked, till midnight chimed from the old eight-day clock in the hall, a sound which struck almost as much consternation to Bessie's soul as if she had been Cinderella at the royal ball. 'TWELVE O'CLOCK! and the little ones all up! she exclaimed, looking round the circle of towzled heads with remorseful eyes. 'What would mother say?
His mother is dead, and the General is his own worst enemy; eats and drinks too much, and thinks he can get away with it." "Are they very rich ?" "Millions, with only Derry to leave it to. He's the child of a second wife." Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely Cinderella, could your godmother do more than this? To endow two rained-on and shabby gentlemen with pomp and circumstance!
"Beautiful dresses," said one, "Pearls and jewels," said the second. "And thou, Cinderella," said he, "what wilt thou have?" "Father, break off for me the first branch which knocks against your hat on your way home."
I don't want to be introduced to any of these cold, aristocratic Bostonians." "Not all of them cold and aristocratic, darling," replied Mrs. Delano. "Your Mamita is one of them; and she is becoming less cold and aristocratic every day, thanks to a little Cinderella who came to her singing through the woods, two years ago."
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