The Snow Queen (4)

The Snow Queen (4)

Could the Snow Queen come in here ? " asked Gerda.

" If she comes in, " said Kay, " I will put her on the stove and she will melt. "

That night, Kay looked out through a little hole that he had melted in the ice covering the window, and outside he saw a snowflake falling.

It grew and grew outside the window until it turned into a beautiful woman totally made of ice, gleamingand glittering, and her eyes shining like stars.

There was no peace or rest in those eyes, and she beckoned to Kay to open the window.

He jumped down from his chair in fear, and a shadow passed over the window like a big bird flying past.

Spring finally came, and then summer; the two rose bushes bloomed better than ever that summer.

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