The Magic Mirror


Once upon a time, there were three sisters—Clara, Constance and Clementine, who lived together in a cottage. Constance and Clementine were slightly foolish and extremely ambitious, but Clara was a sensible girl.
One day, their Fairy godmother appeared before them with a magic mirror.
“If you look into this, you’ll see your future husbands, my dear girls,” she told them.
Constance looked eagerly into the mirror and turned away angrily. “I am marrying a Duke and this shows me married to a poor soldier!” she said, “I think this mirror is all wrong.”
Clementine looked into the mirror and found to her disgust that she was married to a shoemaker. She said, “Rubbish! I would never marry a shoemaker. The man I’m marrying is an Earl!”
Clara was in love with a woodcutter but when she looked into the mirror, she saw herself with a Prince. “How can that be?” she asked, “I do not wish to marry a Prince, no matter how wealthy or handsome he is. I love the woodcutter.”


“Well, girls, do what your heart tells you and we’ll see, for this mirror never lies!” replied their Fairy godmother.
Constance married the Duke. He gambled away his fortune and had to become a soldier to make a living. This upset Constance thoroughly.
Clementine married an Earl who told her that he was actually a shoemaker who had lied to win her hand. She was so angry that she did not wish to speak to him again. But there was nothing she could do but accept life in a hut with the shoemaker.
Clara did not wish to marry other than the woodcutter whom she loved. So, she married him. She was content to live in his cottage in the woods. But after the wedding, instead of taking her to his cottage, he seated her in a grand carriage. She watched in wonder as they rode towards a palace.
“I’m a Prince,” he told her, “I pretended to be a woodcutter because girls would come to marry me only because of my wealth! I wished to marry a girl who would love me and not my wealth! And you are my Princess now!”


Clara and Prince brought her two sisters to their palace and gave them a suitable place to live and work to do. There, they all lived happily thereafter.

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