{"product_id":"2940014065467","title":"Cinderella Or The Little Glass Slipper","description":"Cinderella; Or The Little Glass Slipper\u003cbr\u003eOnce there was a gentleman who married for his second wife the proudest and most\u003cbr\u003ehaughty woman that was ever seen. She had by a former husband two daughters of her\u003cbr\u003eown humor, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things. He had likewise, by another\u003cbr\u003ewife, a young daughter, but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she\u003cbr\u003etook from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.\u003cbr\u003eNo sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over but the mother-in-law began to show\u003cbr\u003eherself in her true colors. She could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the\u003cbr\u003eless because they made her own daughters appear the more odious. She employed her in\u003cbr\u003emeanest work of the house: she scoured the dishes, tables, etc., and scrubbed madam's\u003cbr\u003echamber and those of misses, her daughters; she lay up in a sorry garret, upon a wretched\u003cbr\u003estraw bed, while her sisters lay in fine rooms, with floors all inlaid, upon beds of the very\u003cbr\u003enewest fashion, and where they had looking-glasses so large that they might see\u003cbr\u003ethemselves at their full length from head to foot.\u003cbr\u003eThe poor girl bore all patiently and dared not tell her father, who would have rattled her\u003cbr\u003eoff; for his wife governed him entirely. When she had done her work she used to go into\u003cbr\u003ethe chimney-corner and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be\u003cbr\u003ecalled a cinder maid; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest,\u003cbr\u003ecalled her Cinderella. However, Cinderella, notwithstanding her mean apparel, was a\u003cbr\u003ehundred times handsomer than her sisters, though they were always dressed very richly.\u003cbr\u003eIt happened that the King's son gave a ball and invited all persons, of fashion to it. Our\u003cbr\u003eyoung misses were also invited, for they cut a very grand figure among the quality. They\u003cbr\u003ewere mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in choosing out such\u003cbr\u003egowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might become them. This was a new trouble to\u003cbr\u003eCinderella, for it was she who ironed her sisters' linen and plaited their ruffles. They\u003cbr\u003etalked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed.\u003cbr\u003e\"For my part,\" said the eldest, \"I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"And I,\" said the youngest, \"shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for\u003cbr\u003ethat, I will put on my gold-flowered manteau and my diamond stomacher, which is far\u003cbr\u003efrom being the most ordinary one in the world.\"\u003cbr\u003eThey sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their headdresses and adjust\u003cbr\u003etheir double pinners, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la\u003cbr\u003ePoche.\u003cbr\u003eCinderella was likewise called up to them to be consulted in all these matters, for she had\u003cbr\u003eexcellent notions and advised them always for the best, nay, and offered her services to\u003cbr\u003edress their heads, which they were very willing she should do. As she was doing this they\u003cbr\u003esaid to her:\u003cbr\u003e\"Cinderella, would you not be glad to go to the ball?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Alas!\" said she, \"you only jeer me. It is not for such as I am to go thither.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Thou art in the right of it,\" replied they. \"It would make the people laugh to see a cinder\u003cbr\u003ewench at a ball.\"\u003cbr\u003eAny one but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good and\u003cbr\u003edressed them perfectly well. They were almost two days without eating, so much they\u003cbr\u003ewere transported with joy. They broke above a dozen of laces in trying to be laced up\u003cbr\u003eclose, that they might have a fine, slender shape, and they were continually at their\u003cbr\u003elooking-glass. At last the happy day came. They went to Court, and Cinderella followed\u003cbr\u003ethem with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them she fell acrying.\u003cbr\u003eHer Godmother, who saw her all in tears, asked her what was the matter.","brand":"Altantic eBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083580784880,"sku":"2940014065467","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014065467_p0.jpg?v=1763599986","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014065467","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}