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60%u201cNo, dear Beast,%u201d answered Beauty softly, %u201cI do not hate you, and I should be very sorry never to see you any more, but I long to see my father again. Only let me go for two months, and I promise to come back to you and stay for the rest of my life.%u201dThe Beast, who had been sighing dolefully while she spoke, now replied, %u201cI cannot refuse you anything you ask, even though it should cost me my life. Take the four boxes you will find in the room next to your own and fill them with everything you wish to take with you. But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over, or you may have cause to repent it; for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead. You will not need any chariot to bring you back. Only say goodbye to all your brothers and sisters the night before you come away and, when you have gone to bed, turn this ring round upon your finger, and say firmly, %u2018I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.%u2019 Good night, Beauty. Fear nothing, sleep peacefully, and before long you shall see your father once more.%u201dAs soon as Beauty was alone, she hastened to fill the boxes with all the rare and precious things she saw about them did they seem to be full. Then she went to bed but could hardly sleep for joy. When at last she began to dream of her beloved prince, she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank, sad and weary, and hardly like himself.She dreams of the prince.