Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected From Those of Perrault, and other Popular Writers
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected From Those of Perrault, and other Popular Writers
                                            
                            By Various Authors
                            
                                5 Sep, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Excerpt.........Once on a time there was a man who had fine town and country houses, gold and silver plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches gilt all over; but unfortunately, this man had a blue beard, which made him look so ugly and terrible, that
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                                                Excerpt.........Once on a time there was a man who had fine town and country houses, gold and silver plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches gilt all over; but unfortunately, this man had a blue beard, which made him look so ugly and terrible, that there was not a woman or girl who did not run away from him. One of his neighbours, a lady of quality, had two daughters, who were perfectly beautiful. He proposed to marry one of them, leaving her to choose which of the two she would give him. Neither of them would have him; and they sent him from one to the other, not being able to make up their minds to marry a man who had a blue beard. Less