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48dazzled by the gorgeous jewels lying in heaps upon every shelf. After choosing a vast quantity, which she divided between her sisters%u2014for she had made a heap of the wonderful dresses for each of them%u2014she opened the last chest, which was full of gold.%u201cI think, Father,%u201d she said, %u201cthat, as the gold will be more useful to you, we had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with it.%u201d So they did this, but the more they put in, the more room there seemed to be, and at last they put back all the jewels and dresses they had taken out, and Beauty even added as many more of the jewels as she could carry at once. Even then the trunks were not too full, but they were so heavy an elephant could not have carried them!%u201cThe Beast was mocking us!%u201d cried the merchant. %u201cHe pretended to give us all these things, knowing that I could not carry them away.%u201d%u201cLet us wait and see,%u201d answered Beauty. %u201cI cannot believe he meant to deceive us. All we can do is to fasten them up and have them ready.%u201dSo they did this and returned to the little room where, to their astonishment, they found breakfast ready. The merchant ate his They try to load the horse.