Beauty , have you the heart to desert an unhappy Beast like this ? What more do you want to make you happy ? Is it because you hate me that you want to escape ? '' `` No , dear Beast , '' answered Beauty softly , `` I do not hate you , and I should be very sorry never to see you any more , but I long to see my father again . Only let me go for two months , and I promise to come back to you and stay for the rest of my life . '' The Beast , who had been sighing dolefully while she spoke , now replied : `` I can not refuse you anything you ask , even though it should cost me my life . Take the four boxes you will find in the room next to your own , and fill them with everything you wish to take with you . But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over , or you may have cause to repent it , for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead . You will not need any chariot to bring you back . Only say good-by to all your brothers and sisters the night before you come away , and when you have gone to bed turn this ring round upon your finger and say firmly : ' I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again . ' Good-night , Beauty . Fear nothing , sleep peacefully , and before long you shall see your father once more . '' As soon as Beauty was alone she hastened to fill the boxes with all the rare and precious things she saw about her , and only when she was tired of heaping things into them did they seem to be full . Then she went to bed , but could hardly sleep for joy . And when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved Prince she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank , sad and weary , and hardly like himself . `` What is the matter ? '' she cried . He looked at her reproachfully , and said : `` How can you ask me , cruel one ? Are you not leaving me to my death perhaps ? '' `` Ah !
do n't be so sorrowful , '' cried Beauty ; `` I am only going to assure my father XXXXX I am safe and happy .
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