Part 2
"Why have not we an immortal soul?” asked the little mermaid mournfully; “I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.”
I will go to the sea witch, of whom I have always been so much afraid.
[...] at every step you take it will feel as if you were treading upon sharp knives, and that the blood must flow. If you will bear all this, I will help you.
[...] it seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate body: she fell into a swoon, and lay like one dead. When the sun arose and shone over the sea, she recovered, and felt a sharp pain; but just before her stood the handsome young prince.
Then the little mermaid raised her lovely white arms, stood on the tips of her toes, and glided over the floor, and danced as no one yet had been able to dance. [...] and she danced again quite readily, to please him, though each time her foot touched the floor it seemed as if she trod on sharp knives.
The first morning after he marries another your heart will break, and you will become foam on the crest of the waves.
Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince; [...] and you will be once more a mermaid.
The sun rose above the waves, and his warm rays fell on the cold foam of the little mermaid, who did not feel as if she were dying. [...] Unseen she kissed the forehead of her bride, and fanned the prince, and then mounted with the other children of the air to a rosy cloud that floated through the aether.
THE END
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