Oldal 22 [22]
5 Beauty and the Beast
sag sinamever, ohe tried to: cheer him, saying.
“ Beauty will soon return, but nothing seemed
to comfort him. Beauty then went to her room,
av beiore retirme to rest she took care: 1o
place the ring on the dressing-table. When
she awoke next morning, what was her Joy at
finding herself in her fathers house, with the
gifts and clothes from the palace at her bed-side.
At first she.wondered where she was; but
sae .soon. heard the voice of her father, and,
rushing out, she flung her arms round his
feex ihe father’and daughter had*much: to
say to each other. Beauty related all that had
mapoened to. her at’ the palace. ler father
enriched by the liberality of the Beast, had left
his old house, and now lived in a very large
city, and her sisters were engaged to be mar¬
ried to young men of good family.
When she had passed some weeks with her
family, Beauty found that her sisters, who were
secretly vexed at her good fortune, still looked
upon, her’ as a rival, and ‘treated: -her =aithe
coldness. Besides this, she remembered her
promise to the Beast, and resolved to return to
him. But her father and brothers begged her
to stay a day or two longer, and she could
not resist their entreaties. Rut one night she
dreamed that the poor - Beast lying dead
in the palace garden; she er in a fright,