有声英语儿童童话故事 海的女儿 第21章

No one on earth has such lovelyvoices as they, but the little mermaid sang more sweetly than all. The wholecourt applauded her with hands and tails, and for a moment her heart felt quitegay, for she knew she had the sweetest voice either on earth or in the sea. Butsoon she thought again of the world above her; she could not forget thecharming prince, nor her sorrow that she had not an immortal soul like his. Shecrept away silently out of her father’s palace, and while everything within wasgladness and song, she sat in her own little garden, sorrowful and alone. Thenshe heard the bugle sounding through the water and thought: “He is certainlysailing above, he in whom my wishes center and in whose hands I should like toplace the happiness of my life. I will venture all for him and to win animmortal soul. While my sisters are dancing in my father’s palace I will go tothe sea witch, of whom I have always been so much afraid; she can give mecounsel and help.”