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31
"
You
must
not
think
of
that
,
"
said
the
old
woman
;
"
we
feel
ourselves
to
be
much
happier
and
much
better
off
than
human
beings
.
"
32
"
So
I
shall
die
,
"
said
the
little
mermaid
,
"
and
as
the
foam
of
the
sea
I
shall
be
driven
about
never
again
to
hear
the
music
of
the
waves
,
or
to
see
the
pretty
flowers
nor
the
red
sun
.
Is
there
anything
I
can
do
to
win
an
immortal
soul
?
"
33
"
No
,
"
said
the
old
woman
,
"
unless
a
man
were
to
love
you
so
much
that
you
were
more
to
him
than
his
father
or
mother
;
and
if
all
his
thoughts
and
all
his
love
were
fixed
upon
you
,
and
the
priest
placed
his
right
hand
in
yours
,
and
he
promised
to
be
true
to
you
here
and
hereafter
,
then
his
soul
would
glide
into
your
body
and
you
would
obtain
a
share
in
the
future
happiness
of
mankind
.
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34
He
would
give
a
soul
to
you
and
retain
his
own
as
well
;
but
this
can
never
happen
.
Your
fish
's
tail
,
which
amongst
us
is
considered
so
beautiful
,
is
thought
on
earth
to
be
quite
ugly
;
they
do
not
know
any
better
,
and
they
think
it
necessary
to
have
two
stout
props
,
which
they
call
legs
,
in
order
to
be
handsome
.
"
35
Then
the
little
mermaid
sighed
,
and
looked
sorrowfully
at
her
fish
's
tail
.
"
Let
us
be
happy
,
"
said
the
old
lady
,
"
and
dart
and
spring
about
during
the
three
hundred
years
that
we
have
to
live
,
which
is
really
quite
long
enough
;
after
that
we
can
rest
ourselves
all
the
better
.
This
evening
we
are
going
to
have
a
court
ball
.
"
36
It
is
one
of
those
splendid
sights
which
we
can
never
see
on
earth
.
The
walls
and
the
ceiling
of
the
large
ball-room
were
of
thick
,
but
transparent
crystal
.
May
hundreds
of
colossal
shells
,
some
of
a
deep
red
,
others
of
a
grass
green
,
stood
on
each
side
in
rows
,
with
blue
fire
in
them
,
which
lighted
up
the
whole
saloon
,
and
shone
through
the
walls
,
so
that
the
sea
was
also
illuminated
.
Innumerable
fishes
,
great
and
small
,
swam
past
the
crystal
walls
;
on
some
of
them
the
scales
glowed
with
a
purple
brilliancy
,
and
on
others
they
shone
like
silver
and
gold
.
Through
the
halls
flowed
a
broad
stream
,
and
in
it
danced
the
mermen
and
the
mermaids
to
the
music
of
their
own
sweet
singing
.
No
one
on
earth
has
such
a
lovely
voice
as
theirs
.
37
The
little
mermaid
sang
more
sweetly
than
them
all
.
The
whole
court
applauded
her
with
hands
and
tails
;
and
for
a
moment
her
heart
felt
quite
gay
,
for
she
knew
she
had
the
loveliest
voice
of
any
on
earth
or
in
the
sea
.
But
she
soon
thought
again
of
the
world
above
her
,
for
she
could
not
forget
the
charming
prince
,
nor
her
sorrow
that
she
had
not
an
immortal
soul
like
his
;
therefore
she
crept
away
silently
out
of
her
father
's
palace
,
and
while
everything
within
was
gladness
and
song
,
she
sat
in
her
own
little
garden
sorrowful
and
alone
.
Then
she
heard
the
bugle
sounding
through
the
water
,
and
thought
--
"
He
is
certainly
sailing
above
,
he
on
whom
my
wishes
depend
,
and
in
whose
hands
I
should
like
to
place
the
happiness
of
my
life
.
I
will
venture
all
for
him
,
and
to
win
an
immortal
soul
,
while
my
sisters
are
dancing
in
my
father
's
palace
,
I
will
go
to
the
sea
witch
,
of
whom
I
have
always
been
so
much
afraid
,
but
she
can
give
me
counsel
and
help
.
"
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And
then
the
little
mermaid
went
out
from
her
garden
,
and
took
the
road
to
the
foaming
whirlpools
,
behind
which
the
sorceress
lived
.
She
had
never
been
that
way
before
:
neither
flowers
nor
grass
grew
there
;
nothing
but
bare
,
gray
,
sandy
ground
stretched
out
to
the
whirlpool
,
where
the
water
,
like
foaming
mill-wheels
,
whirled
round
everything
that
it
seized
,
and
cast
it
into
the
fathomless
deep
.
Through
the
midst
of
these
crushing
whirlpools
the
little
mermaid
was
obliged
to
pass
,
to
reach
the
dominions
of
the
sea
witch
;
and
also
for
a
long
distance
the
only
road
lay
right
across
a
quantity
of
warm
,
bubbling
mire
,
called
by
the
witch
her
turfmoor
.
39
Beyond
this
stood
her
house
,
in
the
centre
of
a
strange
forest
,
in
which
all
the
trees
and
flowers
were
polypi
,
half
animals
and
half
plants
;
they
looked
like
serpents
with
a
hundred
heads
growing
out
of
the
ground
.
The
branches
were
long
slimy
arms
,
with
fingers
like
flexible
worms
,
moving
limb
after
limb
from
the
root
to
the
top
.
All
that
could
be
reached
in
the
sea
they
seized
upon
,
and
held
fast
,
so
that
it
never
escaped
from
their
clutches
.
The
little
mermaid
was
so
alarmed
at
what
she
saw
,
that
she
stood
still
,
and
her
heart
beat
with
fear
,
and
she
was
very
nearly
turning
back
;
but
she
thought
of
the
prince
,
and
of
the
human
soul
for
which
she
longed
,
and
her
courage
returned
.
She
fastened
her
long
flowing
hair
round
her
head
,
so
that
the
polypi
might
not
seize
hold
of
it
.
She
laid
her
hands
together
across
her
bosom
,
and
then
she
darted
forward
as
a
fish
shoots
through
the
water
,
between
the
supple
arms
and
fingers
of
the
ugly
polypi
,
which
were
stretched
out
on
each
side
of
her
.
She
saw
that
each
held
in
its
grasp
something
it
had
seized
with
its
numerous
little
arms
,
as
if
they
were
iron
bands
.
The
white
skeletons
of
human
beings
who
had
perished
at
sea
,
and
had
sunk
down
into
the
deep
waters
,
skeletons
of
land
animals
,
oars
,
rudders
,
and
chests
of
ships
were
lying
tightly
grasped
by
their
clinging
arms
;
even
a
little
mermaid
,
whom
they
had
caught
and
strangled
;
and
this
seemed
the
most
shocking
of
all
to
the
little
princess
.
40
She
now
came
to
a
space
of
marshy
ground
in
the
wood
,
where
large
,
fat
water-snakes
were
rolling
in
the
mire
,
and
showing
their
ugly
,
drab-colored
bodies
.
In
the
midst
of
this
spot
stood
a
house
,
built
with
the
bones
of
shipwrecked
human
beings
.
There
sat
the
sea
witch
,
allowing
a
toad
to
eat
from
her
mouth
,
just
as
people
sometimes
feed
a
canary
with
a
piece
of
sugar
.
She
called
the
ugly
water-snakes
her
little
chickens
,
and
allowed
them
to
crawl
all
over
her
bosom
.