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CONTENTS
THE STORY
OF
Cinderella; or the Glass Slipper.
Edited by Madame de Chatelain.
Cinderella; or, the Glass Slipper.
There once lived a gentleman, who, on becoming a widower, married a mosthaughty woman for his second wife. The lady had two daughters by aformer marriage, equally proud and disagreeable as herself, while thehusband had one daughter, of the sweetest temper and most angelicdisposition, who was the complete counterpart of her late mother. Nosooner was the wedding over, than the stepmother began to show her badtemper. She could not bear her stepdaughter's good qualities, that onlyshowed up her daughters' unamiable ones still more obviously, and sheaccordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the drudgery of thehousehold. It was she who washed the dishes, and scrubbed down thestairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber, and in those ofthe two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter slept on goodfeatherbeds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length[Pg 4]looking-glasses, their sister la