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she had just discovered in the next room a chest
full of dresses trimmed with gold and studded
with diamonds. Beauty felt grateful to the Beast
for this attention, and having selected the
simplest of the gowns she bade the servant pack
up the others, as she wished to send them as
presents to her sisters. The words were hardly out
of her mouth when the chest disappeared. Her
father expressed the opinion that the Beast
wished her to keep them all for herself, and in a
trice dresses and chest were back again where
they were before.
When Beauty had dressed she learned that her
sisters, with their husbands, had arrived. Both
were very unhappy. The eldest had wedded an
exceedingly handsome man, but the latter was so
taken up with his own looks that he studied them
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