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第6章 扬长而去

But he looked at her reproachfully, and said:

"Let us wait and see," answered Beauty. "I cannot believe thathe meant to deceive us. All we can do is to fasten them up andleave them ready."

"I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again," asshe had been told to do.

"if he makes all this rejoicing over the arrival of his prey."

The merchant was only too glad when the Beast went away,and though he could not sleep for sadness, he lay down until

ty?"

one answered, and not a trace of him could she find; until at last,

But this reply vexed her sisters, who fancied she was blamingthem for having asked for such costly things. Her father, how-ever, was pleased, but as he thought that at her age she certainlyought to like pretty presents, he told her to choose something.

However, as he did not seem at all ferocious, and only saidgruffly: