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It strikes twelve,^ when slie does not think (that) it is yet eleven o'clock. Air- surprisecl,^ she riscs and riees more swiftly than a hind would hâve* done. and reaches home alone, with her first poor clothes. The prince who had always been by her side, follows her, but cannot catch her. He only ^ picks up a little glass slipper which had fallen from one of her beautiful feet, as she ran.*'

" Hâve you not seen a princess go-out?" asked he of the guards.

"We hâve seen no one go out but a young girl, alP out-of-breath, who was dressed more like " a peasant than like a lady," said they.

1 Here = niidnight. 2 Toui, as adverb. 8 Part, surprendre.

4 Use idiomatic ne. 5 seulement, or ne fit que. ^ Tense? '> comme.