The prince had waited until Cinderella came, then immediately took her by the hand, and danced only with her.[ (63) When others came and asked her to dance. with them he said, She is my dance partner."][(64) When evening came she wanted to leave and the prince followed her wanting to see into which house she went .]But she ran away from him and into the garden behind the house. [(65) A beautiful tall tree stood there. on which hung the most magnificent pears.] She climbed as nimbly as a squirrel into the branches, and the prince did not know where she had gone. He waited until her father came, then said to him. [(66) The unknown girl has eluded me and I believe she has climbed up the pear tree."]
The father thought, Could it be Cinderella? [(67) He had an ax brought to him and cut down the tree, but no one was in it.]When they came to the kitchen,
Cinderella was lying there in the ashes as usual, for she had jumped down from the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress back to the bird in the hazel tree, and had put on her gray smock.
(From Cinderella)
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