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" BEATRICE: Laura told me it might help if I read aloud. Mina had given us a book of fairy tales. Blue Fairy Tales? Blue Book of Fairy Tales? I do not remember the exact title. I was never given fairy tales to read as a child, only scientific treatises. How I would have enjoyed them! Although I do not understand how a shoe could fit only one woman in an entire kingdom.

DIANA: It was a magical shoe.

BEATRICE: Still, that is not logical. I can accept pumpkins turning into coaches, and lizards into footmen, but a shoe will fit many women of the same size. How could the prince know he was choosing the right one? "

Theodora Goss , European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #2)


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Theodora Goss quote : <b>BEATRICE:</b> Laura told me it might help if I read aloud. Mina had given us a book of fairy tales. <i>Blue Fairy Tales? Blue Book of Fairy Tales?</i> I do not remember the exact title. I was never given fairy tales to read as a child, only scientific treatises. How I would have enjoyed them! Although I do not understand how a shoe could fit only one woman in an entire kingdom.<br /><br /><b>DIANA:</b> It was a magical shoe.<br /><br /><b>BEATRICE:</b> Still, that is not logical. I can accept pumpkins turning into coaches, and lizards into footmen, but a shoe will fit many women of the same size. How could the prince know he was choosing the right one?