白雪公主.9 | Snow White Chapter 9

儿童童话 白雪公主 英语故事 The prince said, ‘You are safe and with friends.’ Then he told her all that had happened, and said, ‘I love you far better than all the world; so come with me to my father’s palace, and if you please I wish you to be my wife.’ And Snow White consented, and went home with the prince; and everything was got ready with great pomp and splendor for their wedding. Royalty from all the surrounding kingdoms were invited to the wedding feast, , Snow White’s stepmother the queen; and as she was dressing herself in fine rich clothes, she looked in the glass and said: ‘Tell me, glass, tell me true! Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest, tell me, who?’ And the glass answered: ‘Thou, lady, art loveliest here, I ween; But lovelier still is the new-made queen.’ When she heard this she was dismayed; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride. And when she got there, and saw that it was no other than Snow White, who, as she thought, had been dead a long while, her face contorted with such rage that it stuck that way, and she was never beautiful again. Snow White and the prince lived happily over that land many, many years; and often they went up into the mountains, and paid a visit to the dwarfs, who had been so kind to Snow White in her time of need.