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111never to be beautiful for them; for if the ship sank, the men were drowned, and their dead bodies alone reached the palace of the Sea King.When the sisters rose, arm-in-arm, through the water in this way, their youngest sister would stand quite alone, looking after them, ready to cry, only that the mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more. %u201cOh, were I but fifteen years old,%u201d said she: %u201cI know that I shall love the world up there, and all the people who live in it.%u201dAt last she reached her fifteenth year. %u201cWell, now, you are grown up,%u201d%u2022 said the old dowager, her grandmother; %u201cso you must let me adorn you like your other sisters;%u201d%u2022 and she placed a wreath of white lilies in her hair, and every flower leaf was half a pearl. Then the old lady ordered eight great o y s t e r s t o a t t a c h themselves to the tail of the princess to show her high She swims aloneOysters on her tail