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Золушка. Часть 3

CINDERELLA; OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.

Part 3

Any one but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good and dressed them perfectly well. They were almost two days without eating, so much they were transported with joy (они не помнили себя от радости). They broke above a dozen of laces in trying to be laced up close that they might have a fine, slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass. At last the happy day came. They went to Court (дворец), and Cinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them she fell a crying.

Her Godmother, who saw her all in tears, asked her what was the matter.

‘I wish I could - I wish I could –‘

She was not able to speak the rest being interrupted by her tears and sobbing.

This Godmother of hers, who was a fairy, said to her: ‘Thou wishest thou could'st go to the ball. (Уст.: You wish you could go to the ball) Is it not so?’

‘Yes,’ cried Cinderella, with a great sigh.

‘Well,’ said her Godmother, ‘be but a good girl, and I will contrive that thou shalt go(Уст.: You will go) .’ Then she took her into her chamber and said to her: ‘Run into the garden and bring me a pumpkin.'

Cinderella went immediately to gather the finest she could get and brought it to her Godmother, not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could make her go to the ball. Her Godmother scooped out all the inside of it, having left nothing but the rind; which done, she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold.