有声英语儿童童话故事 海的女儿 第40章

Then they sighed deeply andmournfully, and sank beneath the waves.

The little mermaid drew back thecrimson curtain of the tent and beheld the fair bride, whose head was restingon the prince’s breast. She bent down and kissed his noble brow, then looked atthe sky, on which the rosy dawn grew brighter and brighter. She glanced at thesharp knife and again fixed her eyes on the prince, who whispered the name ofhis bride in his dreams.

She was in histhoughts, and the knife trembled in the hand of the little mermaid—but sheflung it far from her into the waves. The water turned red where it fell, andthe drops that spurted up looked like blood. She cast one more lingering,half-fainting glance at the prince, then threw herself from the ship into thesea and felt her body dissolving into foam.