5.
Then he went away, after saying, “Good-by, Beauty; good-by, old man”; and they went into the next room. They were greatly surprised at the riches it contained. There were splendid dresses fit for a queen, with all the trimmings that were to be worn with them; and when Beauty opened the cupboards she was  _________  that lay in heaps upon every shelf. After choosing a vast quantity, she opened the last chest, which was full of gold.

“I think, father,” she said, “that, as the gold will be more useful to you, we had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with it.” So they did this; but the more they put in the more room there seemed to be, and at last the trunks were so heavy that  _________  !

“The Beast was mocking us,” cried the merchant; “he must have pretended to give us all these things, knowing that I could not carry them away.”

“Let us wait and see,” answered Beauty.

At sunrise, they went down into the courtyard, where two horses were waiting, one loaded with the two trunks, the other for the merchant to ride. And as soon as climbed into the saddle, he went off at such a pace that she lost sight of her father in an instant. Then Beauty began to cry, and wandered sadly back to her own room where she fell into a deep sleep.

She dreamed that she was walking by a stream when a young prince, handsomer than anyone she had ever seen, and with a voice that went straight to her heart, came and said to her, “Ah, Beauty! you are not so unlucky as you suppose. Your every wish  _________  . Only try to find me, no matter how I may be disguised, as I love you dearly, and in making me happy you will find your own happiness. Be as true-hearted as you are beautiful, and we shall have nothing left to wish for.”

“What can I do, Prince, to make you happy?” said Beauty.

“Only be grateful,” he answered, “and do not trust too much to your eyes. And, above all, do not leave me until you have saved me from my cruel misery.”

Beauty found her dream so interesting that she was _________  , but presently the clock roused her by calling her name softly twelve times, and then she got up and found her dressing-table set out with everything she could possibly want; And very soon she began to think about the charming Prince she had seen in her dream.
 1. quite dazzled by the gorgeous jewels
 2. an elephant could not have carried them
 3. shall be gratified
4. in no hurry to awake

 6. “He said I could make him happy,” said Beauty to herself.

“It seems, then, that this horrible Beast  _________  . How can I set him free? I don’t understand it. But, after all, it was only a dream, so why should I trouble myself about it? I had better go and find something to do to amuse myself.”

So she got up and began to explore some of the many rooms of the palace.

Beauty found her supper served just at the time she preferred to have it, but she did not see anyone or hear a sound, and she began to find it rather dull.

But presently she heard the Beast coming, and wondered tremblingly if he meant to eat her up now.

However, as he did not seem at all fierce, and only said gruffly:”Good-evening, Beauty,”

She answered cheerfully and  _________  .

Then he asked if she thought she could be happy in his palace; and Beauty answered that everything was so beautiful that she would be very hard to please if she could not be happy. And after about an hour’s talk Beauty began to think that the Beast was not nearly so terrible as she had supposed at first. Then he got up to leave her, and said in his gruff voice:

“Do you love me, Beauty? Will you marry me?”

“Oh! what shall I say?” cried Beauty, for she was afraid to make the Beast angry by refusing.

“Say `yes’ or `no’ without fear,” he replied.

“Oh! no, Beast,” said Beauty hastily.

“Since you will not, good-night, Beauty,” he said.

And she answered, “Good-night, Beast,” very glad to find that her refusal had not  _________  . And after he was gone she was very soon in bed and asleep, and dreaming of her unknown Prince. She thought he came and said to her:

“Ah, Beauty! why are you so unkind to me? I fear I am fated to be unhappy for many a long day still.”

And then her dreams changed, but  _________  .
1. keeps him a prisoner
2. managed to hide her terror
3. made me attack her
4. the charming Prince appeared in all of them

7.
This morning she decided to amuse herself in the garden, for the sun shone, and all the fountains were playing; but she was astonished to find that every place was familiar to her, and presently she came to the stream where the myrtle trees were growing where she had first met the Prince in her dream, and that made her think more than ever that he must be kept a prisoner by the Beast. When she was tired she went back to the palace, and found a new room in which there was a huge cage  _________  , which were so tame that they flew to Beauty as soon as they saw her, and perched upon her shoulders and her head. Some of them were parrots and cockatoos that could talk, and they greeted Beauty by name;

“Pretty little creatures,” she said, “how I wish that your cage was nearer to my room, that I might often hear you sing!

So saying she opened a door, and found, to her delight, that it led into her own room, though she had thought it was quite the other side of the palace.

After supper, the Beast paid her his usual visit, and asked her the same questions as before, and then with a gruff “good-night” he left her, and Beauty went to bed to  _________  .

The days passed swiftly in different amusements. Every evening after supper the Beast came to see her, and always before saying good-night asked her in his terrible voice:

“Beauty, will you marry me?”

And it seemed to Beauty, now she understood him better, that when she said, “No, Beast,” he went away quite sad. But her happy dreams of the handsome young Prince soon made her forget the poor Beast, and the only thing that at all disturbed her was to be constantly told by her dream-prince to distrust appearances, to let her heart guide her, and not her eyes, and  _________  things, which, consider as she would, she could not understand.

So everything went on for a long time, until at last, happy as she was, Beauty began to long for the sight of her father and her brothers and sisters; and one night, seeing her look very sad, the Beast asked _________  .
1. full of rare birds
2. dream of her mysterious Prince
3. many other equally baffling
4. her what was the matter