The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 142
ed his obe-dient wife hegot into hiscoach and droveaway. The neigh-bors and friendsof the youngbride scarcelywaited for aninvitation, soeager were theyto see all thetreasures whichthe house con-tained, fornever beforehad they daredto enter it, beingmuch afraid ofthe blue beardof the owner.Now they… … the sofas, the cabinets, the tables, the lightstands ;there were mirrors so large that in them theycould see themselves from top to toe, and the mir-rors had frames,glass,silverof some ofsome ofand somegold, all morebeautiful andmagnificentthan any theyhad ever beforeseen. Theynever ceased…
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