A merchant asks his daughters what he may bring them from
his travels; the elder two daughters ask for jewelry, but the youngest, Bella,
replies that all she really wants for her papa to return safely. Upon her
father's request for her to name a gift, she also asks for a rose.
On the father's return journey, he stops to cut a rose from
a beautiful garden, but a horrible Beast stops him. The beast tells the father
that the penalty for stealing is death, but he makes a bargain with the
merchant for his youngest daughter to come and live with him instead.
The daughter dutifully joins the beast at his enchanted
house where all her needs and wants are met by simply clapping and asking for
the object of her desire. She and the Beast become friends over time,
until one day when she finds the beast huddled in the garden. Fearing his
death, Bella cries out that she loves him, and the magical spell reverses,
leaving a handsome prince where once lay the horrible form of the beast.
Bella and the prince are married and live happily ever after.
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