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61%u201cWhat is the matter?%u201d she cried.But he looked at her reproachfully and said, %u201cHow can you ask me, cruel one? Are you not leaving me to my death perhaps?%u201d%u201cAh, don%u2019t be so sorrowful!%u201d cried Beauty. %u201cI am only going to assure my father that I am safe and happy. I have promised the Beast faithfully I will come back, and he would die of grief if I did not keep my word!%u201d%u201cWhat would that matter to you?%u201d asked the prince.%u201cSurely you would not care?%u201d%u201cIndeed I should be ungrateful if I did not care for such a kind Beast,%u201d cried Beauty indignantly. %u201cI would die to save him from pain. I assure you it is not his fault he is so ugly.%u201dJust then a strange sound woke her%u2014s o m e o n e w a s speaking not very far away; and opening her eyes she found herself in a room she had never seen before, which was certainly not as splendid as those she had seen in the B e as t %u2019s p al a c e . Where could she be? She rose and dressed hastily and then saw that the boxes she had packed the night before were all in She awakes in a different place. the room. Suddenly