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His new wife had an only daughter, who was both ugly and untidy, whereas her stepdaughter was a beautiful girl, and was known as Maiden Bright-eye. Her stepmother was very cruel to her on this account; she had always to do the hardest work, and got very little to eat, and no attention paid to her; but to her own daughter she was all that was good.
Then the marriage took place, in the presence of Girouette, whom they had the greatest trouble to find, and who was much astonished to discover how much business had been got through in her absence. Maiden Bright-eye From the Danish Once, upon a time there was a man and his wife who had two children, a boy and a girl. The wife died, and the man married again.
The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses, and so she came to her end.:But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye, and immediately made her his queen, while her brother became his prime minister. The Merry Wives From the Danish
Keep your cold nose away from my hand, Master Bright-eye; you forget how you behaved to my friend Crisp yesterday." Just as she arrived at this point of her soliloquy, she stood before a window, overlooking the part of the garden where she had left Robin.
Crisp comes gammocking up, wagging his tail, seeming in the best of good humours; poor Blanche receives him kindly, and sometimes walks before him to the buttery; then, all of a sudden, just as she is thinking how very glad she is to meet Crisp thinking, too, that notwithstanding his shaggy coat and crooked legs, he is a thousand times more to be esteemed and liked than the fine and conceited Bright-eye at that very time, and just as suddenly as you fly into your passions, Crisp stops, grins, twirls his tail, and will neither return her civility nor accept her invitation.
'Thanks, Maiden Bright-eye, said the dog. 'Where is my brother? 'He is in the serpent-pit. 'Where is my wicked sister? 'She is with the noble king. 'Alas! alas! I am here this evening, and shall be for two evenings yet, and then I shall never come again. When it had said this the duck waddled off again.
"I will sit in yonder nook, dear mistress; I will not turn towards you, nor speak, nor breathe you may fancy me a statue, so silent, so immovable will rest your little Barbara. Blanche and Bright-eye, and even that black wolf-hound, remain in the chamber, and why not I? Am I less faithful, or less thoughtful, than a dog? and would you treat me worse? Besides, dear lady, your wedding-clothes!
She was spared from all the hardest of the housework, and had always the prettiest clothes to wear. Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep, but of course it would never do to let her go idle and enjoy herself too much at this work, so she had to pull heather while she was out on the moors with them.
After this it slipped out, and no one could get hold of it. But the king's cook thought to himself, 'I shall see if I can't get hold of you to-morrow evening. On the third evening the duck again came waddling in by the drain, and up to the dog on the hearth-stone. 'Good evening, it said. 'Thanks, Maiden Bright-eye, said the dog. 'Where is my brother? 'He is in the serpent-pit.
With this he cut a piece off the beak, and there came a voice which said, 'Oh, oh, you cut my little finger! Next moment Maiden Bright-eye stood there, as lovely and beautiful as he had seen her when he was home. This was his sister now, he said; and the whole story now came out of how the other had behaved to her.
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