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Stories for the household (1889)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 578

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ar more happy and far better than mankind yonder. Then I am to die and be cast as foam upon the sea, not hearing themusic of the waves, nor seeing the pretty flowers and the red sun ? CanI not do anything to win an immortal soul ? No! answered the grandmother. Only if a man were to love youso that… … THE PRINCES PLEASURE BARGE. and in all eternity, then his soul would be imparted to your body, andyou would receive a share of the happiness of mankind. He wouldgive a soul to you and yet retain his own. But that can never come topass. What is considered beautiful here in the sea—the fish-tail—they…

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