episode 7
Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and trembled with rage when she received exactly the same answer as before; and she said,
“Snow White shall die, if it costs me my life.”
So she went secretly into a chamber, and prepared a poisoned apple; the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whosoever tasted it was sure to die.
Then she dressed her up as a peasants’ wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs’ cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snow White put her heard out of the window, and said,
“I dare not let anyone in, for the dwarfs have told me not to.”
“Do as please.”
Said the old woman,
“But at any rate take this pretty apple; I will make you a present of it.”
“No,”
Said Snow White,
“I dare not take it.”
“You silly girl!”
Answered the order,
“What are you afraid of? Do you think it is poisoned? Come! Do you eat one part, and I will eat the order.”
Now the apple was so prepared that one side was good, though the order side was poisoned.
Then Snow White was very much tempted to taste, for the apple looked exceedingly nice; and when she saw the old woman eat, she could refrain no longer.
But she had scarcely put the piece into her mouth when she fell down dead upon the ground.
“This time nothing will save thee.”
Said the queen;
And she went home to her glass, and at last it said-
“Thou, Queen, art the fairest of all the fair.”
And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be.
