Dutch · Beginner
Adapted from Cinderella
A mistreated young woman receives help from a magical bird and goes to the king’s festival.
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Scene 1 · Beginner
De vrouw van een rijke man was erg ziek. Ze wist dat ze niet lang meer zou leven en riep haar enige dochter bij haar bed.
The wife of a rich man was very ill. She knew she would not live much longer and called her only daughter to her bedside.
‘Lief kind, blijf goed en geloof in God,’ zei ze. ‘Dan zal God je altijd beschermen. Vanuit de hemel zal ik naar je kijken en dicht bij je zijn.’
“Dear child, be good and believe in God,” she said. “Then God will always protect you. I will watch over you from heaven and be close to you.”
Daarna sloot ze haar ogen en stierf. Het meisje ging elke dag naar haar moeders graf en huilde daar. Ze bleef goed en bleef in God geloven. In de winter lag er sneeuw op het graf. Toen de sneeuw in de lente weer weg was, was haar vader met een andere vrouw getrouwd.
After that, she closed her eyes and died. The girl went to her mother’s grave every day and cried there. She stayed good and continued to believe in God. In winter, snow lay on the grave. When the snow melted again in spring, her father had married another woman.
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