Outside cened as if t of its oed pallor remained beers landscape, flakes floated do same, inner lig soo, at try road. Not e and unmarked as a spilled bolt of bridal satin.
Fatfall.
t doelep of news.
the roads are bad. I hope hell be safe.
But tuck fast in a rut, budge an inc from very morning; at ttempt to restore unes, urned out s to find trol to take even enoug over to buy y, , te rose sed; t sed, no matter , once again be. Stle and been able to give it to stra broke ; t but to fasten around al and set off doo look for help.
Be-iron gates, a s, snoicent flourisure, perfect Palladian seemed to self ss of an antique cypress. It nig s s, retiring, melanced but for a lig flickered in an upstairs migion of a star, if any stars could rated t ce and sa of a tangle of till, te rose.
te clanged loudly s beoo loudly. For an instant, t reverberating clang seemed final, empic, ominous as if te, no from tside try garden. And, from a distance, t distance tell, singular sound in t roaring, as of a beast of prey.
In too muco alloimidated, o to, it came to , as at first, made of brass, but, instead, of gold. Before, ly in upon so many, many flo, free-standing jars of crystal t it seemed to its ake of perfumed breat the hall.
tly as it , time, no fear altmospy t ered a place of privilege en very eccentric and t of an exceedingly off t, tals of tinkled a little, as if emitting a pleased cs o all in t even tatutory country-garden mackintoso greet , ing ing for last -- te King Celligently cocked, on t gave ing proof of s ricity to see the dog wore, in place of a collar, a diamond necklace.
to its feet in tle leatudy on t floor, o a roaring log fire. On table, a silver tray; round ter, a silver tag ation: Eat me, in a flo beef, still bloody. e t mustard tfully provided in a stone, and, rotted off about her own business.
All t remained to make Beautys fatirely comfortable o find, in a curtained recess, not only a telep t advertised a ty-four-er and trouble, only t up from tions to t one of deference, as soon as he house from where he was calling.
And ed but, in ances, relieved to able if absent s account; no question, assured t ers custom.
time for anotried, unsuccessfully, to call Beauty and tell e; but till doorm curtains revealed a landscape as of ivory in tily o tell ime to be gone, t tality was over.
As to bee.
Great rees and, em on o te, a cly to to reveal, as if miraculously preserved beneat, one last, single, perfect rose t mig rose left living in all te er, and of so intense and delicate a fragrance it seemed to ring like a dulcimer on the frozen air.
, so mysterious, so kind, deny Beauty ?
Not noant but close to door, rose a migo s breat still, because er, Beautys fatole the rose.
At t, every and a fugal baying, as if a pride of lions, introduced .
ty about great bulk, an assertiveness, a quality of being more t of us are. ted Beautys fato er t s, and t glittered on , mazy e, on t pa grasped the sheepskin as he shook him like an angry child shakes a doll.
tion sys fatil eettled and ting from tractedly, like a lady at wy blows have been exchanged.
quot;My good fello; stammered Beautys fat the only response was a renewed roar.
quot;Good fello, and you must call me Beast, w;
quot;Forgive me for robbing your garden, Beast!quot;
y pa of dull red brocade and lovely cupped it.
quot;It ys fat;All sed, in te, perfect rose.quot;
t rudely snatcograp and inspected it, first brusquely, trange kind of tured a certain look simes, of absolute sness and absolute gravity, as if pierce appearances and see your soul. ure back, t took good care not to scratch his claws.
quot;take bring o dinner,quot; else o be done?
Altold ure of ted for control an instinctual siful by far t to a different order of beauty and, besides, t for us: ional fear of us te eyes, t looked almost blind, as if sick of sig.
, impassive as a figure top of table; tapestried, a gem. Apart from an aromatic soup kept over a spirit lamp, te, and, e notted ant oo bitterly of t at t time to time to see t everything was in order.
range intolerable; its presence c lay under er, and : tender o be, Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial.
Yet sayed, and smiled, because ed o do so; and old t, s ed, of s say , o London to take up t it o t must be, on some magically reciprocal scale, tune.
Do not tion to an unusual degree and, besides, so ther, whom she loved dearly.
ained a marvellous glass bed; sos; and a little parlour of ique paper of birds of paradise and Cures and ts morning, made , all ty. tomed luxury about , because it gave no pleasure to its possessor and see all day as if, curious reversal, sened o keep oday, t curquoises.