“And what shall I bring you, Beauty?” for Beauty had yet asked nothing.
“Why, since you ask me, dear father, I should like you to bring me a
rose, for none grow in these parts.” Now Beauty did not care so very
much for a rose, but she did not like to seem to blame her sisters,
or to appear better than they, by saying that she did not wish for
anything.
The good man set off; but all was not as he had hoped. The ship had
come in, but there was a dispute about the cargo. He went to law, and it
ended in his turning back poorer than when he left his home.