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Chapter 33 The Bluebeard's Story
There was once a man who had several beautiful houses, both in the city and in the country, with plates of gold and silver, carved furniture, and magnificent carriages.But unfortunately this man had a blue beard, which made him look hideously ugly, and all the women and girls kept away from him.

Among his neighbors was a lady who had two very beautiful daughters.He longed to marry one of her daughters, and left it to her to decide which of the two daughters he should marry.Neither of them could accept him, they pushed him between them, and the thought of marrying a man with a blue beard was unbearable.Also, to their distaste, he had been married to several women whose fate no one knew.

In order to win their love, Bluebeard took them both, their mother, three or four ladies they knew well, and several other young men in the neighbourhood, to one of his villas, where they stayed for a whole week.

At that time, people saw only happy parties, hunting, fishing, dancing, laughter and feasting.No one went to sleep, they all joked with each other all night long.In short, everything was arranged so successfully that the youngest daughter began to think that the master of the house had less blue beard, and that he was a very polite gentleman.

As soon as they got home, Bluebeard married the youngest daughter.About a month later, Bluebeard told his wife that he had to go to the country on some very important business, for at least six weeks, and that she should enjoy herself and her friends while he was away. Come with acquaintances, take them into the country if she pleases, and be merry wherever.

"Here," said he, "these are the keys to the two great storerooms where I keep my best furniture. These are the keys to the chest in which my gold and silver plates are kept, and they are not They are all in use. These keys will open my strong chests, which contain gold and silver coins. These are the keys to my jewel chest. This is the master key that opens all my rooms, and this small one, It is the key to the storage room at the end of the corridor on the ground floor. Open all the doors and go into all the rooms except the small storage room, which I strictly forbid you to touch: if you open it by accident, you It just makes me angry and resentful towards you."

She promised to obey whatever he ordered her to do.After he embraced her, he got into the carriage and started his journey.

Neighbors and best friends arrived at the house before the bride sent for her, and they couldn't wait to see all the gorgeous furniture in the house.They were afraid to come when her husband was home because his blue beard frightened them.They glanced over all the rooms, closets and wardrobes, all of them so fine and ornate that the one seemed better than the other.

Then they went upstairs into two large rooms furnished with the finest and most expensive furniture, the tapestries, beds, benches, cupboards, shelves, tables, mirrors in such a multitude and style that they It cannot be praised enough.In those mirrors you could see your feet from head to toe, some with glass frames, others with silver frames, some plain and some gilded, the most beautiful mirrors they ever saw .

They kept admiring and envious of this friend's happiness, but she was in no mood to appreciate those rich and expensive things at the moment, because she was eager to open the storage room on the ground floor.Forced by her intense curiosity, without thinking how impolite it would be to leave her companions, she descended a short flight of stairs, nearly breaking her neck two or three times in her haste.

When she came to the storeroom door, she paused for a moment, thinking about her husband's order, and what misfortune would happen to her if she disobeyed this order.But the temptation was too strong for her to overcome.So she took out the little key, and opened the closet, trembling all over, and at first could not see anything, for the windows were shut.After a while, she found that the floor of the entire storage room was covered with a layer of congealed blood, and on top of the pool of blood, there were several female corpses (they were married by Bluebeard and murdered one by one) against the wall. all the wives who died).She thought she was going to be frightened to death, and the key that had been pulled out of the lock fell out of her hand.

After recovering a little from her surprise, she took up the key, locked the pantry door, and went upstairs to her bedroom to calm herself down.But she couldn't, she was too scared.She found blood on the storeroom key, and tried to wipe it off, but it could not be wiped off two or three times, and it did not wash off after being washed.

Soap and sand didn't help, the blood remained on the key because the key was magical and she would never be able to get it clean.The bloodstain disappears on one side and reappears on the other.

That night, Blue Beard returned from his journey, saying that he had received several letters on the way, informing him that the business he had gone to deal with had been done and was very beneficial to him.The wife did her best to convince him that she was very glad that he was back so soon.

The next morning he asked her for the key and she gave it to him, but she was shaking so much that it was easy for him to guess what had happened.

"What!" said he, "how come the key to my closet isn't in there?"

"I must have dropped it on the table," she said.

"You must bring it to me at once," said Bluebeard.

After pacing up and down a few times, she had to take the key to him.After examining the key carefully, Bluebeard said to his wife, "How did the blood get on the key?"

"I don't know," cried the poor woman, paler than dead.

"You don't know!" replied Blue Beard, "but I know very well. You must have been in that store-room, haven't you? Well, ma'am, you will go in there, among those you see find your place among women."

At these words she knelt at her husband's feet, tried to show that she really regretted it, and swore that she would never disobey him again.She was so beautiful, and so full of sorrow, that even a stone would move; but Blue Beard's heart is harder than a stone!
"You must die, ma'am," he said. "I must die immediately."

Selan Fairy Tale Book Fairy Tale Book Fairy Tale Book Children's Book "Since I must die," she replied, looking at him tearfully, "then give me a moment to pray."

"I'll give you half an hour," replied Bluebeard, "not much more."

When she was alone in the room, she called her sister and said to her, "Sister Anne (that's her name), I beg you to climb to the top of the tower and see if your brothers have come." Come, they promised me to come here today. If you see them, send a signal for them to come quickly."

Sister Annie climbed to the top of the tower, and the miserable wife cried again and again: "Annie, sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?"

Sister Anne replied: "I only see the sun, which makes the earth dusty, and I only see weeds, which look green."

At this moment Bluebeard, holding a large saber in his hand, shouted at his wife at the top of his voice:
"Come down quickly, or I'm going to come up."

"Just a moment, if you don't object." His wife replied, and then called softly: "Anne, sister Anne, do you see someone coming?"

Sister Anne replied:

"I only see the sun, which makes the earth dusty, and only weeds, which look green."

"Come down quickly," cried Blue Beard, "or I'll come up."

"I'm coming down," replied his wife, and then asked, "Anne, sister Anne, don't you see someone coming?"

"I see a great cloud of dust," replied Sister Anne, "rolling this way."

"Is it my brothers?"

"Ah, my dear sister, what I saw was a flock of sheep."

"Aren't you coming down?" cried Bluebeard.

"Just a minute," said his wife, and then she called out, "Anne, Sister Anne, don't you see anyone coming?"

"I see two riders," she said, "but they are far from here."

"Praise God!" answered the poor wife joyfully. "They are my older brothers. I want to send them a signal as much as possible to come over quickly."

Then Bluebeard roared so loudly that the whole house shook.The miserable wife had to go downstairs and knelt at his feet with tears streaming down her face and disheveled hair.

"It is no use," said Bluebeard, "you must die." Then he seized her by the hair with one hand, and with the other he raised his sword to cut off her head.The poor woman turned to him, looking at him with dying eyes, hoping he would give her a moment to collect herself.

"No, no," he said, "give yourself to God." And he raised his knife and was about to cut down... At this moment, there was a loud knock on the door, and Bluebeard had to stop.The gate was opened, and at once two riders rushed in, drawing their swords and running straight at Bluebeard.Knowing that they were his wife's brothers, the one a cavalryman and the other a musketeer, he ran for his life.But the brothers pursued him, and caught him before he reached the porch steps, and stabbed him through the body with their swords, killing him.The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not the strength to stand up to meet the two brothers.

Bluebeard has no children, so his wife controls all his property.She used part of it as a dowry for her sister Anne's marriage to a young gentleman who had long been in love with her; and part of it to pay for her brothers' commissions.The rest of the estate was used as a dowry for her marriage to a very wealthy gentleman who made her forget her unhappy time with Bluebeard.

(End of this chapter)