English Language Workbook Page 27
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37magnificent Christmas tree!" And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against
the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her. And the
matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had
the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and
both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold,
nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.
But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a
smiling mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen to death on the last evening of the old year.
Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt.
"She wanted to warm herself," people said. No one had the slightest suspicion of what
beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her
grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.
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