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VII . The Girl Without a Voice The sun was not up yet when she came to the prince’s palace . She sat on the marble steps in the moonlight and drank the magic drink . She felt as if a sword was cutting through her body . She fainted and lay there as if she was dead . When the sun rose , she woke up in terrible pain . In front of her stood the young prince . She looked down , and then she saw that her fish’s tail was gone . She had two white legs and two small feet ! She had no clothes , so she covered herself with her long hair . The prince asked her who she was and where she came from . She looked at him with her soft , sad blue eyes , but she could not speak . He took her hand and led her into the palace . Every step felt like walking on knives , but she walked as lightly as a bubble . The servants gave her silk dresses , and she was the loveliest girl in the palace . But she could not speak . One day some slave girls sang for the prince and his parents . One of them sang better than the others , and the prince smiled at her . That made the little mermaid very sad . She used to sing much better than that ! “ Oh , if he only knew , ” she thought . “ I gave my voice away for ever to be with him . ” Then the slave girls danced . The little mermaid lifted her white arms , stood on her toes and began to dance too . Nobody had ever danced like that . Everyone loved it , and the prince most of all . He called her his little foundling , a lost child that somebody has found , because he found her by the sea . She danced for him again and again , although every step hurt like a knife . The prince wanted her near him all the time . She slept outside his door on a velvet cushion . He gave her the clothes of a page , a boy servant , so she could ride with him . They rode through green woods , where the birds sang . They climbed high mountains and saw the clouds below them . Her feet bled , but she only smiled and followed him . At night , when everyone was asleep , she went down the marble steps to the sea . She cooled her burning feet in the cold water . And she thought of her family down below . One night her sisters came up , singing sad songs . She waved to them , and they knew her at once . They told her how sad she made them all . After that they came every night . Once she also saw her old grandmother and her father , the Sea King , with his crown . They held out their arms to her , but they stayed far from the land . Day by day she loved the prince more . He loved her too , but only as you love a good , sweet child . He never thought of making her his wife . And without that , she could never have a soul . If he married another girl , she would become foam on the sea the next morning .
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