"Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?"

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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.”

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

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

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