There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, "Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you." And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother's grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. "Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?" said they; "those who eat food must earn it. Out upon her for a kitchen-maid!" They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old grey kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. "Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!" cried they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her, mocking her, and strewing peas and lentils among the ashes, and setting her to pick them up. In the evenings, when she was quite tired out with her hard day's work, she had no bed to lie on, but was obliged to rest on the hearth among the cinders. And as she always looked dusty and dirty, they named her Cinderella.
从前，有一个富人的妻子得了重病，在临终前，她把自己的独生女儿叫到身边说："乖女儿，妈去了以后会在九泉之下守护你、保佑你的。"说完她就闭上眼睛死了。
她被葬在了花园里，小姑娘是一个虔诚而又善良的女孩，她每天都到她母亲的坟前去哭泣。冬天来了，大雪为她母亲的坟盖上了白色的毛毯。 春风吹来，太阳又卸去了坟上的银装素裹。 冬去春来，人过境迁，他爸爸又娶了另外一个妻子。
新妻子带着她以前生的两个女儿一起来安家了。 她们外表很美丽，但是内心却非常丑陋邪恶。 她们到来之时，也就是这个可怜的小姑娘身受苦难之始。 她们说："要这样一个没用的饭桶在厅堂里干什么？谁想吃上面包，谁就得自己去挣得，滚到厨房里做厨房女佣去吧！"说完又脱去她漂亮的衣裳，给她换上灰色的旧外套，恶作剧似地嘲笑她，把她赶到厨房里去了。 她被迫去干艰苦的活儿。 每天天不亮就起来担水、生火、做饭、洗衣，而且还要忍受她们姐妹对她的漠视和折磨。 到了晚上，她累得筋疲力尽时，连睡觉的床铺也没有，不得不睡在炉灶旁边的灰烬中，这一来她身上都沾满了灰烬，又脏，又难看，由于这个原因她们就叫她灰姑娘。
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