Then Blue Beard bawled out so loud that he made the whole house tremble . The distressed wife came down , and threw herself at his feet , all in tears , with her hair about her shoulders . `` This signifies nothing , '' says Blue Beard ; `` you must die '' ; then , taking hold of her hair with one hand , and lifting up the sword with the other , he was going to take off her head . The poor lady , turning about to him , and looking at him with dying eyes , desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself . `` No , no , '' said he , `` recommend thyself to God , '' and was just ready to strike ... At this very instant there was such a loud knocking at the gate that Blue Beard made a sudden stop . The gate was opened , and presently entered two horsemen , who , drawing their swords , ran directly to Blue Beard . He knew them to be his wife 's brothers , one a dragoon , the other a musketeer , so that he ran away immediately to save himself ; but the two brothers pursued so close that they overtook him before he could get to the steps of the porch , when they ran their swords through his body and left him dead . The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband , and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers . Blue Beard had no heirs , and so his wife became mistress of all his estate . She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while ; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers , and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman , who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Blue Beard . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Charles Perrault . TRUSTY JOHN Once upon a time there was an old king who was so ill that he thought to himself , `` I am most likely on my death-bed . '' Then he said , `` Send Trusty John to me . '' Now Trusty John was his favorite servant , and was so called because all his life he had served him so faithfully . When he approached the bed the King spake to him : `` Most trusty John , I feel my end is drawing near , and I could face it without a care were it not for my son . He is still too young to decide everything for himself , and unless you promise me to instruct him in all he should know , and to be to him as a father , I shall not close my eyes in peace . '' Then Trusty John answered : `` I will never desert him , and will serve him faithfully , even though it should cost me my life . '' Then the old King said : `` Now I die comforted and in peace '' ; and then he went on : `` After my death you must show him the whole castle , all the rooms and apartments and vaults , and all the treasures that lie in them ; but you must not show him the last room in the long passage , where the picture of the Princess of the Golden Roof is hidden . When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it and go off into a dead faint , and for her sake he will encounter many dangers ; you must guard him from this . '' And when Trusty John had again given the King his hand upon it the old man became silent , laid his head on the pillow , and died .
When the old King had been carried XXXXX his grave Trusty John told the young King what he had promised his father on his death-bed , and added : `` And I shall assuredly keep my word , and shall be faithful to you as I have been to him , even though it should cost me my life . ''
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