Cinderella Story
Aug. 2nd, 2006 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
politestpirateAlright. So once upon a time, no one knows exactly when, that's how these stories usually go because no one wrote them down- There was a lord who's wife died. He had a daughter, so after a while he sought to find another wife and get married again, and he did. She was a widower as well, with two daughters of her own, and moved into the lord's home. Unfortunately, he died soon after they were married, and left all his affairs to her. The lady was also supposed to look after his daughter, but she put her own above her stepdaughter, and made her out to be nothing more than a scullery maid in the kitchen.
... She did hire new servants, of course. None of them knew that the daughter was really the daughter of the old lord. She had to sleep by the kitchen fireplace to keep warm, and the only name anyone ever knew for her was Cinderella.
Now, the lady was busy with the upcoming season, as both her own daughters were of age to come out. Cinderella was old enough as well, but the lady woudn't bother letting her scullery maid go out, not when she had her own daughters to worry about. However, the lord's daughter was still known by some, and when the prince held a ball, she still received an invitation. The lady had tossed it away, but since Cinderella had to take things to the dustbin, she found the invitation.
But what to do then? Her step mother had sold all of her clothes to the rag pickers, and given all of her own mother's jewelry to her step-sisters. She had nothing except her one change of clothes that were tattered and torn.
However, Cinderella was not totally forgotten. Her father and mother had friends who were Cinderella's godparents, an older couple that the lady had banned from her house long ago. But they had not forgotten her, and the day of the ball, they sent a footman in- since he had not been banned from the house- to go and get her. Cinderella was old enough, they could get her to the ball, and then see about getting her away from her stepmother's control. There was a fine gown for her, and her godmother gave her her own jewelry to wear. Then, they sent her to the ball in a coach with a driver and six footmen. The problem was that she could not stay for long, otherwise her stepmother may find her out.
... She did hire new servants, of course. None of them knew that the daughter was really the daughter of the old lord. She had to sleep by the kitchen fireplace to keep warm, and the only name anyone ever knew for her was Cinderella.
Now, the lady was busy with the upcoming season, as both her own daughters were of age to come out. Cinderella was old enough as well, but the lady woudn't bother letting her scullery maid go out, not when she had her own daughters to worry about. However, the lord's daughter was still known by some, and when the prince held a ball, she still received an invitation. The lady had tossed it away, but since Cinderella had to take things to the dustbin, she found the invitation.
But what to do then? Her step mother had sold all of her clothes to the rag pickers, and given all of her own mother's jewelry to her step-sisters. She had nothing except her one change of clothes that were tattered and torn.
However, Cinderella was not totally forgotten. Her father and mother had friends who were Cinderella's godparents, an older couple that the lady had banned from her house long ago. But they had not forgotten her, and the day of the ball, they sent a footman in- since he had not been banned from the house- to go and get her. Cinderella was old enough, they could get her to the ball, and then see about getting her away from her stepmother's control. There was a fine gown for her, and her godmother gave her her own jewelry to wear. Then, they sent her to the ball in a coach with a driver and six footmen. The problem was that she could not stay for long, otherwise her stepmother may find her out.
