Cinderella (13)

Cinderella (13)

When the two sisters returned from the ball Cinderella asked them if they had been well entertained, and if the beauriful princess had been there.

They told her, yes, but that she hurried away immediately when the clock struck twelve, and with such haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, which the king's son had picked up.

He had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful princess  who owned the glass slipper.

What they said was all true.

The next morning, the king's son went with it to the courtier, and said to him, "No one shall be my wife except for the one whose foot fits this glass slipper." 
The courtier try it upon the princess, the duchesses, and the other court ladies ー but in vain. 

A few days later, the Prince had it proclaimed all over the country, by sound of trumpet, that he would marry the girl whose foot the glass slipper would just fit.

When the time came for each of Cinderella's stepsisters to try to fit the glass slipper, the two sisters did all they possibly could do force their foot into the slipper, but they did not succeed.
The slipper was too small for them.

Cinderella, who saw all this, and knew that it was her slipper, finally said to them, "Let me see if it will not fit me."

Her sisters burst out laughing and began to banter with her.
Her stepmother said, "It's no use for Cinderella. She was not coming with us. "

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