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THE LITTLE SEA MAID

that she had saved him. And she felt very sorrowful; and when he was taken away into the great building, she dived mournfully under the water and returned to her father's palace.



She had always been gentle and melancholy, but now she became much more so. Her sisters asked her what she had seen the first time she rose up to the surface, but she would tell them nothing.