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The merchant’s new wife was very beautiful. At first she behaved affectionately towards Snow White.

She appeared to be concerned with prayer and charity but eventually it all stopped.

The stepmother was very vain. She was constantly adorning herself, changing from one costume to

another and admiring herself in the many mirrors she surrounded herself with. Rather than caring

for Snow White, the stepmother demanded that the child prepare all the meals, wash the clothes

and clean the house. It greatly angered and saddened the merchant to see his young daughter being

mistreated and neglected, so one day he complained to the stepmother.

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