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51
"
Cleanliness
is
a
good
thing
,
"
said
she
,
scouring
the
vessel
with
snakes
,
which
she
had
tied
together
in
a
large
knot
;
then
she
pricked
herself
in
the
breast
,
and
let
the
black
blood
drop
into
it
.
The
steam
that
rose
formed
itself
into
such
horrible
shapes
that
no
one
could
look
at
them
without
fear
.
Every
moment
the
witch
threw
something
else
into
the
vessel
,
and
when
it
began
to
boil
,
the
sound
was
like
the
weeping
of
a
crocodile
.
When
at
last
the
magic
draught
was
ready
,
it
looked
like
the
clearest
water
.
"
There
it
is
for
you
,
"
said
the
witch
.
Then
she
cut
off
the
mermaid
's
tongue
,
so
that
she
became
dumb
,
and
would
never
again
speak
or
sing
.
"
If
the
polypi
should
seize
hold
of
you
as
you
return
through
the
wood
,
"
said
the
witch
,
"
throw
over
them
a
few
drops
of
the
potion
,
and
their
fingers
will
be
torn
into
a
thousand
pieces
.
"
But
the
little
mermaid
had
no
occasion
to
do
this
,
for
the
polypi
sprang
back
in
terror
when
they
caught
sight
of
the
glittering
draught
,
which
shone
in
her
hand
like
a
twinkling
star
.
52
So
she
passed
quickly
through
the
wood
and
the
marsh
,
and
between
the
rushing
whirlpools
.
She
saw
that
in
her
father
's
palace
the
torches
in
the
ballroom
were
extinguished
,
and
all
within
asleep
;
but
she
did
not
venture
to
go
in
to
them
,
for
now
she
was
dumb
and
going
to
leave
them
forever
,
she
felt
as
if
her
heart
would
break
.
She
stole
into
the
garden
,
took
a
flower
from
the
flower-beds
of
each
of
her
sisters
,
kissed
her
hand
a
thousand
times
towards
the
palace
,
and
then
rose
up
through
the
dark
blue
waters
.
The
sun
had
not
risen
when
she
came
in
sight
of
the
prince
's
palace
,
and
approached
the
beautiful
marble
steps
,
but
the
moon
shone
clear
and
bright
.
Then
the
little
mermaid
drank
the
magic
draught
,
and
it
seemed
as
if
a
two-edged
sword
went
through
her
delicate
body
:
she
fell
into
a
swoon
,
and
lay
like
one
dead
.
When
the
sun
arose
and
shone
over
the
sea
,
she
recovered
,
and
felt
a
sharp
pain
;
but
just
before
her
stood
the
handsome
young
prince
.
He
fixed
his
coal-black
eyes
upon
her
so
earnestly
that
she
cast
down
her
own
,
and
then
became
aware
that
her
fish
's
tail
was
gone
,
and
that
she
had
as
pretty
a
pair
of
white
legs
and
tiny
feet
as
any
little
maiden
could
have
;
but
she
had
no
clothes
,
so
she
wrapped
herself
in
her
long
,
thick
hair
.
The
prince
asked
her
who
she
was
,
and
where
she
came
from
,
and
she
looked
at
him
mildly
and
sorrowfully
with
her
deep
blue
eyes
;
but
she
could
not
speak
.
53
Every
step
she
took
was
as
the
witch
had
said
it
would
be
,
she
felt
as
if
treading
upon
the
points
of
needles
or
sharp
knives
;
but
she
bore
it
willingly
,
and
stepped
as
lightly
by
the
prince
's
side
as
a
soap-bubble
,
so
that
he
and
all
who
saw
her
wondered
at
her
graceful-swaying
movements
.
She
was
very
soon
arrayed
in
costly
robes
of
silk
and
muslin
,
and
was
the
most
beautiful
creature
in
the
palace
;
but
she
was
dumb
,
and
could
neither
speak
nor
sing
.
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54
Beautiful
female
slaves
,
dressed
in
silk
and
gold
,
stepped
forward
and
sang
before
the
prince
and
his
royal
parents
:
one
sang
better
than
all
the
others
,
and
the
prince
clapped
his
hands
and
smiled
at
her
.
This
was
great
sorrow
to
the
little
mermaid
;
she
knew
how
much
more
sweetly
she
herself
could
sing
once
,
and
she
thought
,
"
Oh
if
he
could
only
know
that
!
I
have
given
away
my
voice
forever
,
to
be
with
him
.
"
55
The
slaves
next
performed
some
pretty
fairy-like
dances
,
to
the
sound
of
beautiful
music
.
Then
the
little
mermaid
raised
her
lovely
white
arms
,
stood
on
the
tips
of
her
toes
,
and
glided
over
the
floor
,
and
danced
as
no
one
yet
had
been
able
to
dance
.
At
each
moment
her
beauty
became
more
revealed
,
and
her
expressive
eyes
appealed
more
directly
to
the
heart
than
the
songs
of
the
slaves
.
Every
one
was
enchanted
,
especially
the
prince
,
who
called
her
his
little
foundling
;
and
she
danced
again
quite
readily
,
to
please
him
,
though
each
time
her
foot
touched
the
floor
it
seemed
as
if
she
trod
on
sharp
knives
.
56
The
prince
said
she
should
remain
with
him
always
,
and
she
received
permission
to
sleep
at
his
door
,
on
a
velvet
cushion
.
He
had
a
page
's
dress
made
for
her
,
that
she
might
accompany
him
on
horseback
.
They
rode
together
through
the
sweet-scented
woods
,
where
the
green
boughs
touched
their
shoulders
,
and
the
little
birds
sang
among
the
fresh
leaves
.
She
climbed
with
the
prince
to
the
tops
of
high
mountains
;
and
although
her
tender
feet
bled
so
that
even
her
steps
were
marked
,
she
only
laughed
,
and
followed
him
till
they
could
see
the
clouds
beneath
them
looking
like
a
flock
of
birds
travelling
to
distant
lands
.
While
at
the
prince
's
palace
,
and
when
all
the
household
were
asleep
,
she
would
go
and
sit
on
the
broad
marble
steps
;
for
it
eased
her
burning
feet
to
bathe
them
in
the
cold
sea-water
;
and
then
she
thought
of
all
those
below
in
the
deep
.
57
Once
during
the
night
her
sisters
came
up
arm-in-arm
,
singing
sorrowfully
,
as
they
floated
on
the
water
.
She
beckoned
to
them
,
and
then
they
recognized
her
,
and
told
her
how
she
had
grieved
them
.
After
that
,
they
came
to
the
same
place
every
night
;
and
once
she
saw
in
the
distance
her
old
grandmother
,
who
had
not
been
to
the
surface
of
the
sea
for
many
years
,
and
the
old
Sea
King
,
her
father
,
with
his
crown
on
his
head
.
They
stretched
out
their
hands
towards
her
,
but
they
did
not
venture
so
near
the
land
as
her
sisters
did
.
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58
As
the
days
passed
,
she
loved
the
prince
more
fondly
,
and
he
loved
her
as
he
would
love
a
little
child
,
but
it
never
came
into
his
head
to
make
her
his
wife
;
yet
,
unless
he
married
her
,
she
could
not
receive
an
immortal
soul
;
and
,
on
the
morning
after
his
marriage
with
another
,
she
would
dissolve
into
the
foam
of
the
sea
.
59
"
Do
you
not
love
me
the
best
of
them
all
?
"
the
eyes
of
the
little
mermaid
seemed
to
say
,
when
he
took
her
in
his
arms
,
and
kissed
her
fair
forehead
.
60
"
Yes
,
you
are
dear
to
me
,
"
said
the
prince
;
"
for
you
have
the
best
heart
,
and
you
are
the
most
devoted
to
me
;
you
are
like
a
young
maiden
whom
I
once
saw
,
but
whom
I
shall
never
meet
again
.
I
was
in
a
ship
that
was
wrecked
,
and
the
waves
cast
me
ashore
near
a
holy
temple
,
where
several
young
maidens
performed
the
service
.
The
youngest
of
them
found
me
on
the
shore
,
and
saved
my
life
.
I
saw
her
but
twice
,
and
she
is
the
only
one
in
the
world
whom
I
could
love
;
but
you
are
like
her
,
and
you
have
almost
driven
her
image
out
of
my
mind
.
She
belongs
to
the
holy
temple
,
and
my
good
fortune
has
sent
you
to
me
instead
of
her
;
and
we
will
never
part
.
"