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 crying for pardon; but Cinderella, whose kind heart felt pity for their discomfiture, raised them with a kiss. And this is a thing not many girls would have done who had suffered as Cinderella had suffered at these girls’ hands, but she had a sweet and gentle nature.

She even kissed the Baroness, who came into the room just in time to see her daughters kneeling, and who dropped her lorgnette in surprise.

Then the fairy godmother said that the carriage was