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Are you looking for this?
There must be quite a story to go with it.
Won't you tell me? No?
All right then.
I shall tell you a story.
Once upon a time,
there was a beautiful young girl
who married for love.
And she had two loving daughters.
All was well.
But, one day, her husband,
the light of her life, died.
The next time, she married for the sake of her daughters.
But that man, too, was taken from her.
And she was doomed to look every day upon his beloved child.
She had hoped to marry off
one of her beautiful, stupid daughters to the prince.
But his head was turned by a girl with glass slippers.
And so, I lived unhappily ever after.
My story would appear to be ended.
Now, tell me yours.
Did you steal it?
It was given to me.
Given to you?
Given to you. Nothing is ever given.
For everything, we must pay and pay.
That's not true.
Kindness is free. Love is free.
Love is not free.
Now, here is how you will pay me,
if you are to have what you desire.
No one will believe you, a dirty servant girl without a family,
if you lay claim to the prince's heart.
But with a respectable gentlewoman to put you forward,
you will not be ignored.
When you are married,
you will make me the head of the royal household.
Anastasia and Drisella we will pair off with wealthy lords.
And I shall manage that boy.
But he's not a boy.
And who are you?
How would you rule a kingdom?
Best to leave it to me.
That way we all get what we want.
I was not able to protect my father from you,
but I will protect the prince and the kingdom,
no matter what becomes of me.
Well, that is a mistake.
No! Why?
Why are you so cruel?
I don't understand it.
I've tried to be kind to you.
- You? Kind to me? - Yes.
And though no one deserves to be treated as you have treated me.
Why do you do it?
Because you are young, and innocent, and good. And I...
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