"Her godmother, who was a fairy, said to her, "You want to go to the ball, don't you?"

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“When she had done her work, she would go over to the chimney corner, and sit among the cinders.”

“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”

“These were all the women whom Bluebeard had married, and whose throats he had cut one after the other.”

“But the blood always remained, for the key was enchanted.”

“Go into the garden and get me a pumpkin.”

“The king was astonished at the vast amount of property owned by the Marquis of Carabas.”

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