14 FAIRY TALES
all more and more admired her. A fine collation was served up, whereof the young prince eat not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her. She went and sat down by her sisters, shewing them' a thousand civilities, giving them part of the oranges and citrons which the prince had presented her with: which very much surprised them, for they did not know her. While Cinderilla was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three quarters, whereupon she immediately made a courtesy to the company, and hasted away as fast as she could.
Being got home, she ran to seek out her godmother, and after having thanked her, she said, she could not but heartily wish she might go next day to the ball, because the king’s son had desired her. As she was eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderilla ran and opened. How long you have staid, cried she, gaping, rubbing her eyes, and stretching herself as if she had just awaked out of her sleep; she had not, however, any manner of inclination to sleep since they went from home. “If thou hadst been at the ball, says one of her sisters, thou wouldst not have been tired with it; there came thither the finest princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes, she shewed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons. Cinderilla seemed very in different in the matter, indeed she asked the name of that princess; but they told her, “they did not know it, and that the king’s son was uneasy on her account, and would give all the world to know where she was.” At this Cinderilla smiling replied, "She must be very beautiful indeed; O! how happy you have been; could I not see her! Ah! dear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day.”
