“This lovely girl, whose skin possesses that same, inner light so you would have thought she, too, was made all of snow, pauses in her chores in the mean kitchen to look out at the country road.”
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Card 7
Front
“Good fellow? I am no good fellow! I am the Beast, and you must call me Beast, while I call you, Thief!”
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Card 8
Front
“Do no think she had no will of her own…[but] she would gladly have gone to the ends of the earth for her father, whom she loved dearly.”
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Card 9
Front
“My father lost me to The Beast at cards.”
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Card 10
Front
“My tear-beslobbered father wants a rose to show that I forgive him. When I break off a stem, I ***** my finger and so he gets his rose all smeared with blood.”
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Card 11
Front
“The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.”
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Card 12
Front
“proud…of his fine, musical voice. All the windows in the square fly open when I break into impromptu song.”
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Card 13
Front
For a moment, just that moment, you would have thought it was May morning…The veil comes down; so cold it is, and dark, again. It was not I alone who saw her; with that smile he swears she stole his heart. Love.”
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Card 14
Front
“I congratulate her integrity with a few affectionate cuffs round the head.”
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Card 15
Front
There is no way through the wood any more…Once you are inside it, you must stay there until it lets you out again.”
