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The ladies, with hair bound high over their heads, would kneel before the inverted chairs, and place the snowwhite necks beneath this imaginary guillotine. Speeches were delivered to a mock populace, whilst a mock Santerre ordered a mock roll of drums to drown the last flow of eloquence of the supposed victim.
One winter's afternoon she was sitting by the window sewing when she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell on the snow. Then she thought to herself: "Ah, what would I give to have a daughter with skin as white as snow and cheeks as red as blood." After a while a little daughter came to her with skin as white as snow and cheeks as red as blood. So they called her Snowwhite.
Angrily shaking his large head, around which, in spite of his advanced age, thick snowwhite locks floated like a lion's mane, he exclaimed, "Must we then really return to our Pelusium, where Ares restricts the native rights of the Muses, without having admired the noble works which arose in such mysterious secrecy here, where Arachne rules and swings the weaver's shuttle?"
But the Queen said: "I do not know how that can be; I only brought you something for your hair; perhaps you tied it too tight. To show you that I have no ill-will against you I have brought you this beautiful apple." "But my guardians," said Snowwhite, "told me that I must take nothing more from you." "Oh, this is nothing to wear," said the Queen, "this is something to eat.
And Snowwhite thought of a golden ring that her father had given to her, and offered to give it for the comb. The Queen took it and gave Snowwhite the comb and bade her good-bye, and went back to the palace. Snowwhite lost no time in going to the mirror, and binding up her hair and putting the comb into it.
So she dressed herself once more as an old woman and took with her a poisoned ribbon and went to the hut of the three dwarfs. And when she got there she knocked at the door, but Snowwhite called out: "You cannot enter; I must not open the door." Then, as before, the Queen called out in reply: "Then come to the window, and you can see my wares."
Next morning the Queen went to the mirror on the wall and said to it: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" Then the mirror said as before: "Queen, Queen, on thy throne, Snowwhite's the fairest thou must own." Then the Queen knew that something had happened to the comb and that Snowwhite was still alive.
Snowwhite wandered on and on till she got through the forest and came to a mountain hut and knocked at the door, but she got no reply. She was so tired that she lifted up the latch and walked in, and there she saw three little beds and three little chairs and three little cupboards all ready for use.
To show you that there can be no harm in it I will take half of it myself and you shall eat the other half." So she cut the apple in two and gave the poisoned half to Snowwhite. And the moment she had swallowed the first bite of it she fell down dead.
Angrily shaking his large head, around which, in spite of his advanced age, thick snowwhite locks floated like a lion's mane, he exclaimed, "Must we then really return to our Pelusium, where Ares restricts the native rights of the Muses, without having admired the noble works which arose in such mysterious secrecy here, where Arachne rules and swings the weaver's shuttle?"
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