So she told how every night a man came and lay down beside her when the lights were all put out , and how she never saw him , because he always went away before it grew light in the morning , and how she continually went about in sadness , thinking how happy she would be if she could but see him , and how all day long she had to go about alone , and it was so dull and solitary . `` Oh ! '' cried the mother , in horror , `` you are very likely sleeping with a troll ! But I will teach you a way to see him . You shall have a bit of one of my candles , which you can take away with you hidden in your breast . Look at him with that when he is asleep , but take care not to let any tallow drop upon him . '' So she took the candle , and hid it in her breast , and when evening drew near the White Bear came to fetch her away . When they had gone some distance on their way , the White Bear asked her if everything had not happened just as he had foretold , and she could not but own that it had . `` Then , if you have done what your mother wished , '' said he , `` you have brought great misery on both of us . '' `` No , '' she said , `` I have not done anything at all . '' So when she had reached home and had gone to bed it was just the same as it had been before , and a man came and lay down beside her , and late at night , when she could hear that he was sleeping , she got up and kindled a light , lit her candle , let her light shine on him , and saw him , and he was the handsomest prince that eyes had ever beheld , and she loved him so much that it seemed to her that she must die if she did not kiss him that very moment . So she did kiss him ; but while she was doing it she let three drops of hot tallow fall upon his shirt , and he awoke . `` What have you done now ? '' said he ; `` you have brought misery on both of us . If you had but held out for the space of one year I should have been free . I have a step-mother who has bewitched me so that I am a white bear by day and a man by night ; but now all is at an end between you and me , and I must leave you , and go to her . She lives in a castle which lies east of the sun and west of the moon , and there too is a princess with a nose which is three ells long , and she now is the one whom I must marry . '' She wept and lamented , but all in vain , for go he must . Then she asked him if she could not go with him . But no , that could not be .
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