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Snow White and Prince
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But the moment the Prince went to lift up the coffin to carry
Snow White home with him, the piece of apple fell from between her lips. She gradually opened her eyes, lifted up the lid of the coffin, and sat up alive and well.
"Oh! heavens, where am I?" she cried.
The Prince answered joyfully, "You are with me," and he told her all that had happened, adding: "I love you better than anyone in the whole wide world. Will you come with me to my father's palace and be my wife?"
Snow White consented, and went home with the Prince, and their wedding was held with great pomp and splendour.
Now Snow White's wicked step-mother was one of the guests invited to the wedding feast. When she had dressed herself very gorgeously for the occasion, she went to the mirror, and said:
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?"
and the mirror answered:
"Thou, lady, art loveliest here, I ween;
But lovelier far is the new-made queen."
When the wicked woman heard these words she uttered a curse, and was beside herself with rage and mortification, so wretched, so utterly wretched, that she knew not what to do. At first she would not go to the wedding at all, but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
And when she got there, and saw that it was no other than Snow White, who she thought had been dead a long while, she choked with rage, and fell down and died.
But Snow White and the Prince lived and reigned happily over that land many, many years; and sometimes they went up into the hills, and paid a visit to the little Dwarfs, who had been so kind to Snow White in her time of need.
And they all lived happily ever after.
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