CINDERELLA. 7 lence, he fell into low spirits, which brought him to a premature grave. After* the death of her father, the little* orphan found the hardships of her situation to be greatly increased. If she chanced to come into any of the rooms where her stepmother or her daughters were, she was sure of being scolded, because they were vexed that she looked handsomer than themselves. They even wrent so far as to make her do all the meanest work about the kitchen, to assist the servants in putting on the fires, washing the pots, and also in cleaning out the rooms, which were ail newly furnished in the first style of elegance. At night, she was forced to sleep in a garret, on a straw' bed without curtains, and she had not even enough of clothes to protect her from the cold. Although so barbarously used, the sweet girl -went through all this drudgery without repining ; and when her work was done, she would sit down in the corner of the chimney among the cinders, which made some of the family call her Cinder-wench. However, the younger of the sisters, thinking this appellation was vulgar, gave her the more
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