Cinderella

He looked down at her foot and saw how the blood was running out of her shoe, and how it had stained her white stocking. Then he turned his horse and took the false bride home

again. "This also is not the right one," said he, "have you no other daughter?" "No," said the man, "There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride." The King's son said he was to send her up to him; but the mother answered, "Oh, no, she is much too dirty, she cannot show herself!" He absolutely insisted on it, and Cinderella had to be called. She first washed her hands and face clean, and then went and bowed down before the King's son, who gave her the golden shoe. Then she seated herself on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper, which fitted like a glove. And when she rose up and the King's son looked at her face he recognized the beautiful maiden who had danced with him and cried, "That is the true bride!" The step-mother and the two sisters were terrified and became pale with rage; he, however, took Cinderella on his horse and rode away with her. As they passed by the hazel-tree, the two white doves cried --

"Turn and peep,
turn and peep,
No blood is in the shoe,
The shoe is not too small for her,
The true bride rides with you,"

and when they had cried that, the two came flying down and placed themselves on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there.

王 子低頭一看，發現血正從舞鞋裡流出來，連她的白色長襪也浸紅了，他撥轉馬頭，同 樣把她送了回去，對她的父親說：「這不是真新娘，你還有女兒嗎？」父親回答說：「沒有 了，只有我前妻生的一個叫灰姑娘的小邋遢女兒，她不可能是新娘的。」然而，王子一定要 他把她帶來試一試。灰姑娘先把臉和手洗乾淨，然後走進來很有教養地向王子屈膝行禮。王 子把舞鞋拿給她穿，鞋子穿在她腳上就像是專門為她做的一樣。他走上前仔細看清楚她的臉 後，認出了她，馬上興奮的說道：「這才是我真正的新娘。」繼母和她的兩個姐妹大吃一 驚，當王子把灰姑娘扶上馬時，她們氣得臉都發白了，眼睜睜地看著王子把她帶走了。他們 來到榛樹邊時，小白鴿唱道： 「回家吧！回家吧！ 快看那只鞋！ 王妃！這是為你做的鞋！ 王子！王子！ 快帶新娘回家去， 坐在你身邊的才是真正的新娘」   鴿子唱完之後，飛上前來，停在了灰姑娘的右肩上，一起向王宮走去。

文章擷取自《格林童話－灰姑娘》
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