The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, by Charles Perrault
- “He asked her whither she was going”
- “‘What is this I see?’ said her mother”
- “‘Am I come hither to serve you with water, pray?’”
- “This man had the misfortune to have a blue beard”
- “‘What, is not the key of my closet among the rest?’”
- “At this very instant the young fairy came out from behind the
hangings”
- “The prince enquires of the aged countryman”
- “He saw, upon a bed, the finest sight was ever beheld”
- “‘I will have it so,’ replied the Queen, ‘and will eat her with a
Sauce Robert’”
- “The Marquis gave his hand to the Princess, and followed the King,
who went up first”
- “Any one but Cinderilla would have dressed their heads awry”
- “Away she drove, scarce able to contain herself for joy”
- “She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the Prince took up
most carefully”
- “The Prince believed he had given her more wit than he had reserved
for himself”
- “Riquet with the Tuft appeared to her the finest Prince upon
Earth”
- “He brought them home by the very same way they came”
- “Little Thumb was as good as his word, and returned that same night
with the news”
- “Jupiter appeared before him wielding his mighty thunderbolts”
- “A long black pudding came winding and wriggling towards her”
- “Truth to tell, this new ornament did not set off her beauty”
- “He thought the Princess was his Queen”
- “Another gown the colour of the Moon”
- “Curiosity made him put his eye to the keyhole”
