At this Cinderella , smiling , replied : `` She must , then , be very beautiful indeed ; how happy you have been ! Could not I see her ? Ah ! dear Miss Charlotte , do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day . '' `` Ay , to be sure ! '' cried Miss Charlotte ; `` lend my clothes to such a dirty Cinderwench as thou art ! I should be a fool . '' Cinderella , indeed , expected well such answer , and was very glad of the refusal ; for she would have been sadly put to it if her sister had lent her what she asked for jestingly . The next day the two sisters were at the ball , and so was Cinderella , but dressed more magnificently than before . The King 's son was always by her , and never ceased his compliments and kind speeches to her ; to whom all this was so far from being tiresome that she quite forgot what her godmother had recommended to her ; so that she , at last , counted the clock striking twelve when she took it to be no more than eleven ; she then rose up and fled , as nimble as a deer . The Prince followed , but could not overtake her . She left behind one of her glass slippers , which the Prince took up most carefully . She got home but quite out of breath , and in her nasty old clothes , having nothing left her of all her finery but one of the little slippers , fellow to that she dropped . The guards at the palace gate were asked : If they had not seen a princess go out . Who said : They had seen nobody go out but a young girl , very meanly dressed , and who had more the air of a poor country wench than a gentlewoman . When the two sisters returned from the ball Cinderella asked them : If they had been well diverted , and if the fine lady had been there . They told her : Yes , but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve , and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers , the prettiest in the world , which the King 's son had taken up ; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball , and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the glass slipper . What they said was very true ; for a few days after the King 's son caused it to be proclaimed , by sound of trumpet , that he would marry her whose foot the slipper would just fit . They whom he employed began to try it upon the princesses , then the duchesses and all the Court , but in vain ; it was brought to the two sisters , who did all they possibly could to thrust their foot into the slipper , but they could not effect it . Cinderella , who saw all this , and knew her slipper , said to them , laughing : `` Let me see if it will not fit me . ''
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