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Updated: June 4, 2025
The Prince ran after her, but he stopped to pick up her slipper, and when he reached the gateway the beautiful lady was nowhere to be seen. All was dark and still, only a ragged beggar-maid, sobbing as if her heart would break, went quickly away into the night. Poor, poor Cinderella! Her wonderful carriage had vanished, her beautiful dress was gone, nothing was left her but one tiny glass slipper.
The beggar-maid becomes a queen." "You can gee now why I can't offer her just youth and a fighting spirit." "I wonder if Dalton knows." "I don't believe he does," Randy; said slowly, "I give him credit for that." "He might have heard " "I doubt it. He hasn't mingled much, you know." "It will be rather a joke on him " "To find that he has married Mademoiselle Midas?"
Her ear was curved like a shell, her mouth was faint and weak as a rose, and her moods alternated between sudden discontent and sudden gaiety. 'I don't see, Alice, why you couldn't have made King Cophetua marry the Princess. Whoever heard of a King marrying a beggar-maid? Besides, I hear that lots of people are going to be present, and to be jilted before them all isn't very nice.
"I will go!" she whispered, flutelike, for hope beat a living pulse in her brain. So with scrip and hood she went out of the forest and begged of the world's bounty such life as a beggar-maid may endure.
"What right has a man to demand everything and offer nothing in return except an ambition and a hope? Love must come as a giver, not as a beggar." "A knight should not ask to wear his lady's colours until he has won his spurs." "King Cophetua and the beggar-maid very fine! but the other way humiliating!" "A woman may take everything from a man, wealth and fame and position.
Do you realize that you receive every fortnight more than I earn in twelve months? King Cophetua marrying a beggar-maid sounds excellent in romance, but who ever heard of a queen wedding a pauper?" "You are describing yourself rather lamely, John." "Hermione, don't drive me beyond endurance. I can't bear it, I tell you." She caught his right hand, and imprisoned it lovingly in hers.
Nine times out of ten he probably will; but in the tenth instance a Brahmin's passion may be checked by fear of contamination with a Pariah, or a King Cophetua's pride may prevent his wedding a beggar-maid, or the titled owner of an entailed estate may decline to illegitimatise his offspring by espousing his deceased wife's sister, or betrothed lovers may be parted by some such mysterious barrier as sprang up between Talbot Bulstrode and Aurora Floyd, or an Adam Bede, in spite of the example set by George Eliot's hero, may refrain from marrying Dinah for fear of breaking his brother Seth's heart.
She was beautiful, and that was all, and all in all to me; and had our stations been exchanged, and more than exchanged; had I been King Cophetua, or she the beggar-maid, I should have gloried in her just as much. Beloved sleepless hours, which I spent in picturing that scene to myself, with all the brilliance of fresh recollection! Beloved hours! how soon you pass away!
'Take a bottom piece, Olive, and Alice, you really must. . . Well, if you won't eat, tell Milord about your play of King Cophetua and the beggar-maid. Arthur, tell me, how did you like the play, and how did the nuns like it? To think of my daughter, so prim and demure, writing a play, and on such a subject. 'But, mamma, what is there odd in the subject? We all know the old ballad.
Part of the romance had always been his rôle of King Cophetua, and tears sprang to his eyes as he thought of the poor beggar-maid, alone, forlornly weeping, when he had finally withdrawn his presence. "I think it is partly the sea," she said, putting her hand gently on his sleeve.
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