Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

There was once a merchant that had three daughters. One day, he had to go a long journey to buy some goods.

"What shall I bring you back, my dears?" Said the father

“Necklace” replied the first daughter

“Gold chain, father” said the second daughter.

“Hm… and how about you Belle? Why do you just keep silent? What will you want?

 "Bring back yourself, papa, and that is what I want the most."

“No, please what a thing I should bring for you, dear? The father asked.

"All I'd like is a rose you've picked specially for me!"

“All right my daughters, I’ll bring your wish and take care yourselves”

Well, the merchant went on his journey and did his business and bought a pearl necklace for his eldest daughter and a gold chain for his second daughter; but he forgot bringing the rose. Near where he had stopped going home, he saw a great garden with a lovely rosebush.

“Yeah I’ll pluck it for my Bella” then he got off his rose and plucked the most beautiful rose. At that moment he heard a crash like thunder, and looking around he saw a huge monster -- two tusks in his mouth and fiery eyes surrounded by bristles, and horns coming out of its head and spreading over its back.

"Mortal," said the beast, "who told you might pluck my roses?"

"Please, sir," said the merchant in fear and terror for his life, "I promised my daughter to bring her home a rose and forgot about it till the last moment, and then I saw your beautiful garden and thought you would not miss a single rose, or else I would have asked your permission."

"Thieving is thieving," said the beast, "whether it be a rose or a diamond; your life is forfeit."

The merchant fell on his knees and begged for his life.

"Well, mortal, well," said the beast, "I grant your life on one condition: Seven days from now you must bring this youngest daughter of yours.

“I’ll promise” the merchant swore.

As soon as he got into his house his daughters came rushing round him, clapping their hands and showing their joy in every way, and soon he gave the necklace to his eldest daughter, the chain to his second daughter, and then he gave the rose to his youngest, and as he gave it he sighed.

"Oh, thank you, father," they all cried.

But the youngest said, "Why did you sigh so deeply when you gave me my rose?"

"Later on I will tell you" said the merchant.

After several days, the father told to Belle "Bella, do you love your father?"

"Of course I do, father, of course I do."

"Well, now you have a chance of showing it"; and then he told her of all that had occurred with the beast when he got the rose for her.

Bella was very sad, as you can well think, and then she said, "Oh, father, it was all on account of me that you fell into the power of this beast; so I will go with you to him"

So next day the merchant took Bella behind the beast.

The beast came and said to the merchant, "Is this your youngest daughter?"  And when he had said that it was, he said, "Is she willing to stop here with me?"

And then he looked at Bella who said, in a trembling voice, "Yes, sir."

"This house with all that therein is yours; if you desire aught, clap your hands and say the word and it shall be brought unto you." And with that he made a sort of bow and went away.

So Bella lived on in the home with the beast and was waited on by invisible servants and had whatever she liked to eat and to drink. It went on for many days, Bella seeing and talking to the beast every day, till she got quite to like him, Then one day, the Beast asked the girl to be his wife.

“Would you marry with me?”

“Marry…!”

“Yes, with an ugly monster. I know it is difficult for you but you can refuse it and back to your family”

“I’m sorry. I’ll be back first to my family because my father is serious ill. I cannot answer it now.”

“OK.”

Then Bella came back to her own house to see her father. She spent several day at her house but she had a nightmare that The Beast would die. And she was really afraid,

"Don't die! Don't die! I'll marry you . . ." At these words, a miracle took place. The Beast's ugly snout turned magically into the face of a handsome young man.

"How I've been longing for this moment!" he said. "I was suffering in silence, and couldn't tell my frightful secret. An evil witch turned me into a monster and only the love of a maiden willing to accept me as I was, could transform me back into my real self. My dearest! I'll be so happy if you'll marry me."

The wedding took place shortly after and, from that day on the young Prince would have nothing but roses in his gardens.