Page 15 - Beauty and the Beast

oor Beauty had been very grieved at first
over the loss of her fortune, but she said
to herself: "However much I cry, I shall
not recover my wealth, so I must try to
be happy without it".
When they were established in the country the
merchant and his family started working on the
land. Beauty used to rise at four o'clock in the
morning, and was busy all day looking after the
house, and preparing dinner for the family. At first
she found it very hard, for she was not accustomed
to work like a servant, but at the end of a couple
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