童话故事英文版：卖火柴的小女孩.doc

2021年1月26日发(作者：擢升)







童话故事英文版：卖火柴的小女孩







lt was dreadfully cold, it was snowing fast, and almost dark
the evening----the last evening of the old year was drawing
in. But, cold and dark as it was, a poor little girl, with
bare head and feet, was still wandering about the streets.
When she left her home she had slippers on, but they were
much too large for her
；
indeed, properly, they belonged to
her mother, and had dropped off her feet whilst she was
running very fast across the road, to get out of the way of
two carriages. One of the slippers was not to be found, the
other had been snatched up by a little boy, who ran off with
it thinking it might serve him as a doll's cradle.











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So the little girl now walked on, her bare feet quite red and
blue with the cold. She carried a small bundle of matches in
her hand, and a good many more in her tattered apron. No one
had bought any of them the live long day
on, the picture of sorrow
：
poor little child

；
no one had given
her a single penny. Trembling with cold and hunger crept she









The snow- flakes fell on her long, fair hair, which curled in
such pretty ringlets over her shoulders
；
but she thought not of her
own beauty, or of the cold. Lights were glimmering
through every window, and the savor of roast goose reached
her from several houses
；
it was New Year's eve, and it was of
this that she thought.
In a corner formed by two houses, one of which projected
beyond the other. She sat down, drawing her little feet close
under her, but in vain, she could not warm them. She dared