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'Sister,' said the elder, 'I have an idea. Let us try to
persuade her to stay here longer than the eight
days. Her stupid Beast will fly into a rage when he
finds she has broken her word, and will very
likely devour her.'
'You are right, sister,' said the other; 'but we
must [p. 132] make a great fuss of her if we are to
make the plan successful.'
With this plot decided upon they went upstairs
again, and paid such attention to their little sister
that Beauty wept for joy. When the eight days had
passed the two sisters tore their hair, and showed
such grief over her departure that she promised
to remain another eight days.
Beauty reproached herself, nevertheless, with
the grief she was causing to the poor Beast;
moreover, she greatly missed not seeing him.

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