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Title: Beauty and the Beast
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780. Belle et la bête. English George Routledge and Sons
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London New York : George Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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Beauty and the Beast. 4 she would like some of them to follow her andkeep her company. Instantly two tall youngapes, in court dresses, advanced, and placedthemselves with great gravity beside her, andtwo sprightly little monkeys took up her trainas pages. From this time the monkeys alwayswaited upon her with all the attention andrespect that officers of a royal household areaccustomed to pay to queens. Beauty was now, in fact, quite the Queen ofthe palace, and all her wishes were gratified;but, excepting at supper-time, she was alwaysalone; the Beast then appeared, and behavedso agreeably that she liked him more and more.But to his question, Beauty, will you marryme ? he never could get any other answer thana shake of the head from her, on which healways took his leave very sadly. Although Beauty had everything she couldwish for she was not happy, as she could notforget her father, and brothers, and sisters. Atlast, one evening, she begged so hard of theBeast to let her go home that h
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