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how can I make my appearance among so many fine-dressed people in these mean-looking clothes?"
"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear," said the Fairy, with a good humoured smile; "the most laborious part of our task is already aecomplished, and it will be hard if I cannot make your dress correspond with your equipage."
On saying this, she touched Cinderella with her magic wand, and her clothes were instantly changed into the most magnificent apparel, ornamented with the most costly jewels that ever wero beheld. The Fairy took from her poeket a most beautiful pair of elastic glass slippers, which sho caused Cinderella to put on, and then desired her to get into the carriage with all expedition, as the ball had already commenced.
Cinderella instantly stepped into tho chariot, and her godmother, before she took leave, strictly charged her on no account whatever to stay at the ball aftor tho clock had struck twelve; and then added, that, if sho stopped a single moment beyond that time, her fino
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coach, horses, coachman, postilion, footmen, and fine apparel, would all return to their original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, lizards, and mean-looking elothes.
Cinderella promised most faithfully to attend to every thing that tho Fairy had montioned; and then, quite overjoyed, drovo away to the palace.
The arrival of so splendid an equipage as Cinderella's, could not fail to attract general notice at the palace;
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