Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . CINDERELLA Adapted from Charles PerraultTHE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER ^^^^^^jjONG ago there lived a very rich gentle- man whose beloved wife died quitesuddenly, leaving in his care a youngdaughter, who in gentleness of disposi-tion and beauty of face was the exactlikeness of her mother. Both fatherand daughter mourned very deeplyover their loss, and for a long time lived quietlytogether. Then the father, thinking that his little girl neededmore attention and care than he was able to
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . CINDERELLA Adapted from Charles PerraultTHE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER ^^^^^^jjONG ago there lived a very rich gentle- man whose beloved wife died quitesuddenly, leaving in his care a youngdaughter, who in gentleness of disposi-tion and beauty of face was the exactlikeness of her mother. Both fatherand daughter mourned very deeplyover their loss, and for a long time lived quietlytogether. Then the father, thinking that his little girl neededmore attention and care than he was able to give her,married a beautiful widow to whom he had becomevery much attached. Unfortunately, however, thelady whom he married was proud, and the mosthaughty woman ever known. Nothing seemed toplease her, and no matter how polite people wereto her, she treated them with insult and , slie had two daughters of lier own, wliom 224 CiNDEREIXA 225 she had hroiight up to he as proud and idle as fact, both of them had every unkind and unpleas-ant trait of their mother. They did not love to stu
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