 
Although it was difficult to detect any expression on the beast's face, he seemed pleased. He surely cannot intent to harm me, she thought. * Each day she grew ever more fond of the beast, no longer paying any heed to his ugliness. Beauty, I cannot refuse you anything, but I fear this request. I dread that once you are home you will never return and I shall die of grief.
 She thought, the creature is talking nonsense. It's a frog! It lives in the water with frogs. How can it come to court and behave as if it were human? * He may not be handsome, but he has a good character and swims as well as the others, if not better.
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