neděle 11. června 2023

Beauty and The Beast FULL movie with subtitles by Gabrielle de Villeneuve / Level 1, 2 + A fairy tale in Czech and a movie

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Beauty and the Beast (Level 1)

Chapter 1
A rich man lives in a big city near the sea. 
He has got three daughters and three sons.
One daughter is called 'Beauty' because she is very beautiful.
The other two daughters are called Rosalind and Hortensia.
They are lazy and unfriendly. They like going out and having fun.
They both want to find a rich husband. 
They do not like Beauty because she is beautiful.
Beauty has got long red hair. She is kind and friendly.
She likes staying at home and reading books. She also likes playing the piano.

Beauty's father is a merchant. 
One day he loses all his money because his ship is lost at sea. 
'My dear children,' he says sadly, 'I haven't got much money.
 We're poor. We must leave this big house and go and live in the country.'
 Oh, dear!' say the two sisters. 'We're poor 
 this is terrible!'
 What bad luck!' say the three brothers.
'We have to work now,' says Beauty's father. 'Work?' say the two sisters. 
'No, we don't want to work!
 And we don't want to live in the country.' They start to cry.

Beauty is sad but she says, 'Let's not cry! 
We can work and be happy without money.'
The family goes to the country and lives in a small house.
Beauty gets up at four o'clock every morning to clean the house and cook.
Then she washes the family's clothes in the river.
The three brothers work in the country. Rosalind and Hortensia do not work.
They do nothing all day. 

They sleep all morning and walk in the woods in the afternoon.
 'I'm unhappy,' says Rosalind. 'I don't like 
the country because there's nothing to do.'
 'We can't go to the theatre and wear nice 
clothes,' says Hortensia.
 'And we haven't got any friends.'
'Look at Beauty,' says Rosalind angrily. 
'She works and she's happy in this terrible place.'
Beauty's father says
 'Dear Beauty, you work a lot and you're always happy. 

Chapter 2
You're a wonderful daughter.
' A year later Beauty's father gets an important 
letter. 
He calls his six children and says,
'Listen to this letter:' You ship is here.
It is not lost at sea! Please come to the port.
Everyone is happy. 'This is wonderful news!' say the three sons.
'Yes,' says their father, 'the ship with my goods is in the port.'
'We're rich again!' says Rosalind. 'We can buy beautiful clothes.'
'We can go back to our big house in the city,' says Hortensia.
'I must go to the port today,' says her father happily.

'Oh, father,' says Hortensia, 'bring me some new clothes and new hats.'
'Yes,' says Rosalind, 'and some new shoes and jewels.'
Beauty's father looks at her and says, 'What do you want, Beauty?'
'Please don't spend your money, father,' says Beauty. 'Just bring me a rose.'
Beauty's father gets to the port and finds his ship.
But there are no goods on it - it is empty! 'What bad luck!' he says angrily. 
'I must go home and tell the children the bad news .'
On the way home he crosses a big forest. 
It is snowing and windy. He is lost.

'Where am I?' he thinks. 'Where can I go?
I'm very cold and tired.' He hears some wolves and he is afraid.
Suddenly he sees a big castle in the forest. And there are lights in the windows.
'Oh, good!' he thinks. 'Perhaps the people in the castle can help me.'
He takes his horse to the stable near the castle.
He knocks on the big door of the castle but no one answers.
He waits outside the door. Then he opens the door and goes inside.

He sees a big hall with a fireplace. There is a long table with a lot of food on it.
He is cold and sits near the fireplace.
 
'How strange,' he thinks, 'there's no one here.'
 He is hungry and sits down at the table and starts to eat.
Then he is sleepy. He finds a warm, comfortable bed and falls asleep.
The next morning he finds some new clothes 
near his bed.
'How nice! New clothes!' he thinks. 'A kind 
person lives in this castle.
He looks out of the window and is surprised.
'It's not snowing and it's a beautiful day!' he thinks. 
'And there are flowers in the garden.'
He gets dressed and goes to the hall. 
There are biscuits, chocolate and milk on the long table. 

He sits down and says, 'Thank you for this
lovely breakfast.' He looks round but sees no one.
He eats and decides to go home. He goes to the stable and gets his horse. 
In the garden he sees some roses.
'Beauty wants a rose,' he thinks. He takes 
a lovely one.
Suddenly he hears a terrible noise. He turns 
round and sees an ugly monster.

 CHAPTER 3 

'You're a bad man!' cries the Beast angrily.
'You come to my castle and I save your life.
You eat here and you sleep here. And then you take one of my beautiful roses.
For this you must die!' Beauty's father starts to cry. Oh, sir, I'm 
sorry!
You're very kind. Please don't be angry with me. 
This rose is for one of my daughters.'
'My name is not "sir'' - it is Beast. Please 
call me by my name. 
You talk about your daughters. 
Then one of your daughters must die in your place.'
 'Oh, no!' says Beauty's father. 'They're young 
and they don't want to die.'
 'Then you must come back here and die,' says 
the Beast.
 'I can wait three months. Do you agree to come back?'
Beauty's father agrees to come back. 'My daughters must not die,' he thinks.

'I want to go home and see my children for the last time.'
Before Beauty's father leaves the castle the Beast talks to him.
'I'm not had,' says the Beast. 'Go back to your bedroom. There is a big chest there.
Fill it with everything you want and it is yours.'
Beauty's father fills the chest with a lot of gold.
Then he gets on his horse and goes home. 
When he is at home he gives the rose to Beauty.

'Take this rose, Beauty,' he says sadly. 'Let me tell you about my terrible adventure.'
He tells his children about the empty ship in the port, the castle in the forest and
the Beast. Rosalind and Hortensia are angry with Beauty.
They say, 'Father must die because you like roses, Beauty!'
'No,' says Beauty, 'father is not going to die. I'm going to the Beast's castle!'

'No, dear sister,' say her three brothers. 
'We're going to his castle and we're going to kill him!'
'No, that's not possible,' says their father.
'The Beast is very big and strong. I'm old - I must go and die.
But Beauty does not agree. She decides to go to the Beast's castle.
'No, father,' she says, 'you must not go. I want to go!'
'Never, my dear Beauty!' says her father. 'I'm not afraid,' says Beauty. 
'You must live and look after my brothers and sisters.

They need you.'
Beauty's father thinks for a moment. Then he says sadly, 'Alright, Beauty. 
You can go.'

Beauty's brothers are very sad, but Hortensia and Rosalind are not.
The next morning Beauty and her father go to the Beast's castle.
Inside the castle they see a long table with a lot of good food on it.
Beauty and her father are not hungry, but they sit down and eat. 
Suddenly they hear a loud noise. 'What's that terrible noise?' asks Beauty.
'The Beast is coming,' says her father. 
Beauty sees the Beast's ugly face and she is terrified

'Oh, this Beast is really terrible!' she thinks.
The Beast looks at her and says, 'You're a brave girl.'
'I'm very sorry about the rose from your garden…,' says Beauty quietly.
The Beast looks at Beauty's father and says, 'You must go away tomorrow. And don't come 
back! 
Do you understand?' 
Beauty's father looks at the Beast and then at his daughter.
'Oh, Beauty,' he says, 'please go home!

Let me stay here!'
'No, father,' says Beauty. 'We must be brave.

We're both tired - let's go and sleep now. 
Tomorrow morning you can go home to my brothers and sisters.'
 That night Beauty has a dream. In her dream 
a good fairy says,
'You're a good girl, Beauty. And you've got 
a kind heart. 
You want to save your father's life. 
You're going to be very happy one day.' 

CHAPTER 4 

The next morning Beauty's father leaves the castle. He is crying.
'Don't cry, father,' says Beauty. 'Remember, I love you.'
'Goodbye, dear Beauty,' says her father. Beauty is terrified. 
'The Beast is going to eat me tonight,' she thinks. 
'I want to enjoy my last day. I'm going to 
visit the garden of the castle.'
She goes to see the big garden and she is 
surprised. 
It is a beautiful garden with a lot of lovely flowers.
Then she goes to see the big castle. She looks in all the rooms.
On one door she sees this sign: 
BEAUTY'S ROOM  She opens the door and sees a lovely room.

There is a nice bed and a mirror on the wall. Beauty looks round and thinks, 'There's a 
piano and a lot of books for me.
How strange! Perhaps the Beast doesn't want 
to eat me tonight.'
She takes a book and starts to read it. 
Suddenly she sees these words on the pages:

 Welcome, Beauty! You're the queen here.
 
Tell me everything you want. 
'I only want to see my poor father,' says Beauty.
Suddenly she sees her father in the mirror on the wall. 
He is very sad. She also sees her home and 
Hortensia and Rosalind.
They are happy without Beauty.

'The Beast is kind to me,' she thinks. 'Why am I afraid of him?'
At 12 o'clock she has lunch. After lunch she goes to her room.
'What a beautiful piano!' thinks Beauty. 'I want to play it.'
She plays some wonderful music on the piano. 
Then she looks at all the books in her room.

Some of them have got pictures and others have not.
She takes a book about flowers and looks at the pictures of different flowers.
Then she sees pictures of roses of all colours.
'Now I want to go to the garden and look at the lovely roses,' she thinks.
She goes to the garden and stays there all afternoon. 
She looks at the flowers and feels happy.

 At dinner time she sits down at the long table

and then she hears the Beast coming. She is terrified.
'Beauty, can I sit here with you?' asks the Beast.
'You're the lord of the castle,' says Beauty. 'And you're the queen,' says the Beast. 'Can 
I ask you a question?'

'Yes, of course,' says Beauty quietly.
'Am I very ugly?' asks the Beast. Beauty does not know what to say. 
She looks at him and thinks for a moment.
'Well, yes you are!' says Beauty. 

'But you're kind and polite.'
The Beast looks at Beauty and smiles. 
'You're right, I'm terribly ugly but I'm kind.
This is your home now, Beauty. Please don't 
be sad!'
 'Some men are handsome but they're not kind,'
says Beauty.

'I prefer you because you've got a good heart.
'Thank you, Beauty,' says the Beast. Now Beauty is not afraid of the Beast and
she eats a big dinner. The Beast looks at her and asks a question.
Do you want to marry me, Beauty?' What a question! Beauty is terrified.

'What can I say?' thinks Beauty. She is silent for a moment and then she says,
'No, I'm sorry I don't want to marry you.' The Beast is angry and Beauty is afraid.
Then he goes out of the room and says, 'Goodbye, Beauty.'

CHAPTER 5 - The Magic Ring 
Beauty spends three months at the beautiful castle.
Every day she reads books and plays the piano.
She walks everywhere in the big garden. 
She likes the tall trees and the flowers of different colours.
She puts beautiful flowers in the rooms of 
the castle.
Sometimes she makes perfume from the flowers.

But the days are long and she is often lonely. 
Beauty often thinks about her father, her sisters and her brothers.
'I want to see my father again,' she thinks 
sadly.
'And I want to see my home again too.' 
The Beast goes to see her every evening at dinner time, at nine o'clock. 

They talk about interesting things and are 
happy together.
Beauty is not afraid of his ugly face now.
Every evening the Beast asks Beauty the same question:
'Beauty, do you want to marry me?' And every evening Beauty answers, 'No.'
One day Beauty says, 'Why do you ask me the same question every evening?'
'Because I hope to hear a different answer,' says the Beast.
'I'm sorry, I don't want to marry you,' says Beauty.
The Beast is very sad. 'But I'm always going to be your friend,' 
she says.
 'You're a wonderful friend,' says the Beast.

'And you are too,' says Beauty smiling. 'I know I'm terribly ugly,' says the Beast.
'But I love you a lot. I'm very happy with you. Please, don't leave me!'
Beauty's face becomes red and she is quiet for a moment.
'In the mirror of my room,' says Beauty, 'I see my poor father.
He's sad and lonely. He thinks I'm dead. 
My sisters are married and my brothers are away.
I want to see my father for the last time. Can I go and see him, please?'

'Yes, you can go and see your father,' says the Beast. 
'But I'm going to be very sad without you.'
'Oh, thank you!' says Beauty happily. 'Please 
don't be sad, Beast.
 I'm going to come back in a week.'

'Alright,' says the Beast. 'You can visit your father tomorrow morning. 

 But remember,you must come back in a week.
 Before you come back put this ring on a table near your bed.
 It's a magic ring. Goodbye, Beauty.'

CHAPTER 6 
The next morning Beauty wakes up in her bedroom in her father's house.
She gets up and goes downstairs.
When her father sees her he cries, 'Beauty, is that you? How wonderful! 
My daughter is well and she's here!'
Beauty is very happy and hugs her father.
'Get dressed quickly and then tell me about the Beast!' says her father happily.
She goes to her room and finds a chest full of beautiful clothes. 
'This is a present from the the Beast!' says Beauty to her father.
He's very nice and gives me presents every day.' 

She chooses some lovely clothes. 'I want to give these lovely clothes to Rosalind
and Hortensia,' she says. When she says this the chest disappears!
'The Beast is watching you,' says Beauty's father.
 'These beautiful clothes are for you and not for your sisters.'
 Suddenly the chest comes back again.

That morning Rosalind and Hortensia come to visit their sister. 
They are both very unhappy.
'Oh, Beauty,' says Rosalind, 'I'm unhappy.' 'Why are you unhappy, Rosalind?' 
asks Beauty.

'Oh, it's a long story,' says Rosalind. 'Please tell me,' says Beauty.
'My husband is handsome and he spends all day in front of a mirror. 
He never looks at me or talks to me.' 
'Oh, dear, that's a big problem,' says Beauty.
Hortensia says, 'My husband is very clever, but he doesn't like anyone, and no one likes 
him.'

 'I can never invite my friends to lunch or
dinner because he doesn't like them.' 'We've got a lot of problems with our husbands,'
they say.
 'My poor sisters!' says Beauty. 'I'm very 
sorry.'
 'Tell us about the Beast,' says Hortensia.

Oh, the Beast is not a bad man,' says Beauty. 'He's very kind. 
 I live in his beautiful castle and I'm the queen.
I don't work. I read, play the piano and walk in the garden.
Every evening the Beast comes to see me at
dinner and we talk about a lot of things. It's wonderful.'
The two sisters are very angry and they go to the garden.

'Beauty wears lovely clothes and shoes,' says Rosalind. 'She's like a queen.
She's very happy. Why is she lucky? And why are we unlucky?'
'You're right, Rosalind,' says Hortensia. 'We're not very lucky.
But maybe we can be lucky! Beauty has to return to the Beast in a week, or he's going to get 
angry and eat her!'
'Then we must keep her here,' says Rosalind.
'Then the Beast is going to get angry.' 
During the week the two sisters are kind to Beauty.

They talk and laugh with her. They walk together in the country. 
Beauty is happy with her sisters.
 'Rosalind and Hortensia love me,' she thinks.

'They're good sisters and I love them a lot.' 
At the end of the week Beauty says, 
'I must go back to the Beast's castle.'
But her sisters start to cry.
'Oh, Beauty,' says Rosalind, 'please stay with us another week. We need you.'
'Yes, Beauty,' says Hortensia, 'please don't leave us. We have fun with you and we love you.
'Yes,' says Rosalind, 'stay with us! 

 We can do a lot of things together.'
 Beauty does not know what to do. She decides to stay another week.

 CHAPTER 7 

The Beast is going to be very sad without me,' Beauty thinks.
'But I want to stay with my family for a few more days. 
Then I'm going to go back to him.'
Beauty thinks about the Beast. She misses him.
Ten days later Beauty dreams about the Beast. 
In her dream the Beast is on the grass in the garden of the castle. 
And he's going to die!

'Beauty, whispers the Beast, 'today is the tenth day and you're not here.
I can't live without you. I can't eat or drink.' Beauty wakes up and thinks, 
'The poor Beast is going to die without me! I must go back to him.'

She takes the ring and puts it on a table near her bed.
'The Beast is ugly but he's very kind,' she thinks.
'Why don't I marry him? I'm happy with him. My sisters have handsome, clever husbands 
- but they're not happy.' 
Beauty falls asleep and the next morning she 
wakes up at the Beast's castle.

Today I'm going to wear a beautiful dress,'
Beauty thinks. At nine o'clock in the evening she goes to
dinner and waits for the Beast. But he doesn't come to see her.
'What's happening?' Beauty thinks. 'Where's the Beast? Why isn't he here?'
'Beast!' she cries. 'Beast, where are you! Answer me!'
She opens the doors of all the rooms and looks everywhere in the castle.
But she cannot find him. Suddenly she remembers her dream.

She runs 
to the garden and sees the Beast on the grass.
 'Oh, no!' she cries. 'Is he dead?' She listens 
to his heart and it is beating. 
'Good! He's not dead!' she thinks.
She gets some cold water from the river and wets his face. 
The Beast slowly opens his eyes.
 'Beauty,' he whispers, 'I'm dying… but I'm
happy because you're here.' 'No, Beast,' cries Beauty. 
'Don't die! You must live and become my husband.
 I love you and I can't live without you.'

CHAPTER 8 
Suddenly all the lights of the castle and the garden, turn on. 
There are beautiful fireworks in the sky.
Beauty is surprised and looks at the castle. 
Then she turns round and looks at the Beast.
What a surprise! She sees a handsome young man.

'Thank you, Beauty,' says the young man. 'The spell is broken!'
'But where is the Beast?' asks Beauty. 'I am the Beast!' says the prince.
'I don't understand,' says Beauty. 'Who are you?'
'I'm a prince and this is my castle,' says the young man.

'Sometimes a bad witch puts a spell on a prince and only true love can break the spell. Now

I know your love is true.' The prince takes her hand and says, 'Do you
want to marry me, Beauty?' Beauty looks at the handsome prince and says,
'Yes, I do!' Beauty and the prince go to the castle. 

When she opens the door she is surprised.
'My family! You're all here!' cries Beauty.
She is happy when she sees her family. They talk and laugh together.
Suddenly she sees the good fairy from her dream.

'Beauty,' says the good fairy, 'you've got a kind heart and you're going to marry the
prince and become a princess!' Then the good fairy looks at Beauty's two
sisters. 'You're both bad, lazy and unkind,' says the 
fairy. 
'You don't love anyone!' The fairy says some magic words and suddenly
Rosalind and Hortensia become statues. 'Oh, no!' cries Beauty. 
'My sisters are statues!'

'Your sisters have got hearts of stone,' says the fairy.
'Now they can't move, but they can see and hear everything.
When they understand their mistakes they can become Rosalind and Hortensia again.'
The next day Beauty and the prince get married. Everyone dances and sings in the castle.

It is a happy day. People give flowers to Beauty and the prince.
The prince sees tears in Beauty's eyes and says, 'Don't cry, my Beauty. 
We're going to be very happy together!'



Beauty and the Beast  Level - 2 


Once upon a time there was a very rich man who lived with his three daughters. 
The two older daughters laughed at anyone who did not dress as well as they did. 
If they were not going to a ball, they were shopping for as many fine dresses and 
hats as they could carry home. The youngest daughter, Beauty, liked to read most of all.
“No one will want you!” her two older sisters said, and they laughed.
 “Look at your hair - you look like a servant girl!”

Beauty did not know why they talked to her in a mean way. But she said nothing.
One day, the father got some very bad news. He had spent all of his money 
on a ship that he sent out to sea for trade. Now he learned that the ship was gone. 
Everything on it was lost! 
All at once, the rich father became as poor as poor could be. 
The family could no longer stay in their big house. 
The house, its fine tables and chairs, and all of their fine things, had to be sold. 

All the father had left was a little hut deep in the woods. So that is where he and his three daughters had to move. Living in the hut in the woods was hard work. 
Each day a fire had to be started, meals cooked, the place cleaned up, the garden tended, and things fixed when they broke. Now that the family was poor, you might think the two older sisters would help out with the chores. Think again. 

“She looks like such a mess,” they said, turning up their noses at Beauty.
 “She might as well serve us.” And so Beauty did all the hard work. 
And then – good news! – the father’s ship came to shore! 
“Daughters,” said the happy father, “I am going to town. 
Tell me what fine gift I can bring back for you.”
“Bring me the finest dress from the finest shop,” said the eldest sister.

“I want one just like it,” said the middle sister.
“And you, Beauty?” said he.
“All I want, Father,” said she, “is a single rose.”
“Can you believe her?” said the eldest sister.
“What a fool!” said the middle sister. They both laughed.
“Girls!” said the father. “If that is what Beauty wants, that’s what 
I will bring back for her.”

The father was on his way home when he thought, 
“I forgot all about the rose for Beauty!” All at once, the sky turned black.
 “Oh, dear!” he said. “A storm is coming!”
A moment later, heavy dark rains fell from the sky. 
Soaking wet and tired, the father saw a blink of light from far away. 
He went closer to the light, hoping it meant there was some place he could ask to stay the night. When he got up close, he saw a large palace with candles in all its windows.
 
It was very odd, but the front door was open. 
And so with care, the father stepped in. 
“Hello?” he said. No answer. 
There, before him, was a great feast over a long table. 
“Hello?” he said again. Still, no answer. 
The father sat down in front of the fire to warm himself, and he waited. 
But still, no one came. 
“I suppose it would be all right if I stay the night,” said the father.

 He took a quick bite from the feast, found a bedroom, and fell fast asleep.
The next morning the table was laid again, but this time with breakfast. 
Again - most odd! - no one was around. 
“I suppose I should leave,” said the father after a while. 
On the way out he passed a rose garden. “I will take just one,” said he.
 And he picked a rose for Beauty.
Just then, a loud stomp came up from behind him.

Roared a voice - “You took my rose!”
The father spun around. There before him was an awful, huge monster. 
“I… I’m sorry!” he said. “I didn’t know.” 
“You will pay for this!” the Beast yelled. “You will die!” 
The father fell on his knees. “Please!” he begged. 
“Do not kill me! I only picked the rose for one of my daughters.”
Oh, so you have daughters?” said the Beast. “Hmm.. 

Well, if one of them will come and stay here in this palace, you will be free. 
If not, you must return yourself in three months, and take your punishment.” 
When the father got home, Beauty could tell something was wrong. 
“What is it, Father?” she said. “Oh, nothing,” said he. 
But she knew that was not true.
At last, the father told his girls what the Beast had said. 
“This has all happened because I asked you to bring home a rose!” said Beauty. 

“I will go there in your place. Or else, you will die.”
“No, I cannot allow that!” said the father. “I am old and don't have much 
longer to live. You are young - you must not do this for me!”
But Beauty would not change her mind. And two days later, 
the father took Beauty to the palace where the Beast lived.
“So this is your daughter?” said the Beast, looking at Beauty.
 
“Yes,” said she. “I will stay here. And that means my father is free to go. 
That is what you said.”
“Yes,” said the Beast.
The days were long and there was no one for Beauty to talk to at the palace. 
Every night at nine, the Beast would come for dinner. 
At first he would only grunt and she said nothing. 
After all it was not easy to be a prisoner, even if it is at a palace.
 
Then one time at dinner, he made a little joke and she smiled.
 Another time, he made a comment, and she looked him in the eye. 
After that, he would ask her about her day, and she would tell him. 
Not long after that, Beauty came to a part of the palace she had not seen before. 
Over a door was a sign, “Beauty’s Room.” The door was open. 
Inside the room were shelves of books to the ceiling, a piano, and a cabinet of fine dresses, 
just her size.

Now there was much to talk about at dinner! One night, at the end of dinner, 
Beast said, “Beauty, I love you. Will you marry me?”
Beauty was shocked. “Beast, you are my best friend,” she said. 
“But please understand, I do not want you to marry you.”
Still, the Beast asked her the same question after dinner, time after time. 
And each time Beauty said the same thing. One night, the Beast said, “Beauty, 
if you will not marry me, what can I do to make you happy?”

“If you must know,” she said, “it would be to see my father. I miss him so much.”
The next night, the Beast gave Beauty two magical items - a magic mirror and 
a magic ring. “If you want to see your father,” said he, “just ask the magic mirror to show him to you. If you are ready to go back home, turn the magic ring on your finger three times and ask the mirror to take you there. When it’s time to come back here to the palace, 
turn the ring three more times and ask the mirror to come back. 
But do not be gone for more than one week. Or I will die of grief!”
Beauty agreed. When she got back to her room,
 she looked in the magic mirror and asked to see her father. 
And there he was, in bed and looking so sick he could die! 
In fear, Beauty turned the ring on her finger three times.
“Please, Magic Mirror,” she said. “Take me home right now!”

And she was back! Ah, such joy when her father looked up and saw Beauty! 
For much of why he was ill was in knowing that Beauty was stuck in the palace, 
all because of him. Beauty stayed by her father’s bed for hours. 
She told him that she had all the books she could read, music to play, 
and fine dresses to wear. 
“The Beast is not so bad,” she said, “once you get to know him. 
He’s good to talk to. He’s my friend.”

Beauty looked around. “Where are my sisters?” 
“They are both married,” said the father.
“Did they marry good men?” said she.
“They had a lot of money,” said the father. “But I do not know if your sisters are happy.” 
For the eldest sister had married a handsome man so vain that he gave 
no thought to anything else, including his wife.

And the middle sister had married a man with a sharp wit but who used it to hurt everyone around him, and most of all his wife.
When the sisters came to the house and saw Beauty, dressed so well and talking about how kind and good the Beast was to her, they burned with rage. 
Beauty told them she must stay no more than one week. 
And the sisters came up with a plan. 
They petted Beauty and said such nice things they had never said before.

 When she told them she must go soon, they wept. They said she must not leave. 
There was still so much left they wanted to do with her! 
And why does just a few days matter, after all? So Beauty stayed.
One night she had a dream about the Beast. In her dream, the Beast lay sick and dying. 
When Beauty woke up, she asked the magic mirror to show her the Beast. 
There he was in the mirror, lying in the rose garden, looking so sick he would die.

 At once, she turned the magic ring three times. “Take me back to the Beast!” she said.
 In a moment she was sitting next to the poor, sick 
Beast, who could only gasp for air.
The sisters came up with a plan.
"You have come back!” said the Beast in a thick voice.
“I’m so sorry that I am late!” said Beauty. 
“I could not bear the idea that you may not come back to me. 
I am afraid it is too late for me now.” His eyes closed.

“No!” cried Beauty. “Do not leave me!” Just then, she knew in her heart what was true. 
“I love you!” she cried out. “Please come back! If you only come back, 
I will be your wife.” Tears rolled down her cheeks.
Just then, the Beast opened his eyes. “Beauty!” he said. “You did it!”
In a flash, the Beast was changed to a handsome prince! 
Beauty did not know what to think of this change.

“Ah, Beauty!” said the Beast, and he told her his story. 
Years ago when he was 
a prince, an evil fairy had put a spell on him. 
He must stay a beast forever, until a maiden loved him for who he really was.
 
Now she had broken the spell!
And so Beauty and the Beast were married. They lived happily ever after.

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Kráska a zvíře

V dobách, kdy ještě pohádka byla skutečností, žil krásný mladý princ, který byl ale pyšný a sobecký. Stará čarodějnice se rozhodla ho potrestat a proměnila ho v hrozivé zvíře, na které se nedalo pohlédnout. Čarodějnice mu však dala ještě jednu šanci na vysvobození: „Pokud se do tebe zamiluje nějaká žena, stane se opět člověkem, jinak zůstane navždy zvířetem!“

Uběhlo několik let a zakletý princ žil na zámku úplně sám a schovával svůj škaredý zvířecí obličej. Ze zámku vycházel jen v noci, aby ho nikdo neviděl a bloudil tmavým lesem, kde hledal své kořisti. Jak by se do něj mohla zamilovat nějaká dívka, vždyť by se ho polekala a utekla.

Jednoho dne však do zámku omylem zabloudil starý muž a netvorovi se zaprodal, místo sebe musel do zámku odvést jednu ze svých dcer. Svědomí mu nedalo, ale ani jednu dceru nechtěl s netvorem nechat. Svěřil se svým dcerám, ale žádná odejít nechtěla. Nejmladší a nejmilejší dcera nemohla trápení svého otce snést a proto se vydala za neznámým mužem do starého a děsivého zámku.

Každý den byl skoro stejný a stesk po tatínkovi se zvyšoval. Princ se zvířecí hlavou se do dívky zamiloval, ale snažil se jí odolat. Bál se, že jí ublíží a napadne jako svou kořist. Nikdy ho nemohla spatřit a on se před ní skrýval, i když na něj naléhala. Snažil se jí splnit všechna přání, ale ukázat ji svou tvář nemohl, bál se, že by jí ztratil. S takovým zvířetem by tak krásná dívka nezůstala. Měl ji natolik rád, že jí nechtěl pustit ani za nešťastným otcem, puklo by mu srdce, kdyby se už nevrátila a toho se bál. Jednou v zrcadle spatřila odraz něčeho neznámého, zvířeti podobného a velmi se polekala. Netvor se přiznal, že v zrcadle viděla právě jeho. To jí natolik vyděsilo, že chtěla ze zámku pryč.

Stále více naléhala, aby jí ze zámku pustil na návštěvu za svým otcem a sestrami. Netvor ji pustil pod podmínkou, že se vrátí. Otec ji však pustit zpět za netvorem nechtěl. Všude kolem slyšela hlas netvora, který se trápil a volal ji zpět. Láska a touha vidět láskyplného netvora ji přiměla se vrátit, bylo však pozdě a netvor ležel mrtev na zemi. Dívka litovala, že se nestihla včas vrátit. Její slzy proměnily netvora v prince a on obživl.