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32 ed for evening with the utmost impatience, at last the wished-for hour came, the clock struck nine, yet no Beast appeared. After having sought for him every where, she recollected her dream, and flew to the canal in the garden. There she found poor Beast stretched out, quite senseless, and, as she imagined, dead. She threw herself upon him without any dread, and, finding his heart beat still, she fetched some water from the canal, and pouring it on his head. Beast opened his eyes, and said to Beauty, “You forgot your promise, and I was so afflicted for having lost you that I resolved to starve myself; but since I have the happiness of seeing you once more I die satisfied.” “No, dear Beast,” said Beauty, “you must not die; live to be my husband; from this moment I give you my hand, and swear to be none but your’syours [sic].” Beauty scarcely had pronounced these words, when the palace sparkled with lights and fireworks, instruments of music, every thing seemed to portend some great event: but nothing could fix her attention; she turned to her dear Beast, for whom she trembled with fear; but, how great was her surprise! Beast had disappeared, and she saw at her feet, one of the love-