[Illustration: And there, on a bed the curtains of which were drawn wide, he beheld the loveliest vision he had ever seen.] Once upon a time I found myself halting between two projects, both magnificent. For the first, indeed--which was to discover, digest and edit all the fairy tales in the world--I was equipped neither with learning, nor with command of languages, nor with leisure, nor with length of years. It is a task for many men, clubbing their lifetimes together. But the second would have cost me quite a respectable amount of toil; for it was to translate and annotate the whole collection of stories in the _Cabinet des Fées._…
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