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"Would you like to buy a box of matchsticks,
mister ?" the little girl asked. The man ___1___
she approached did not even ___2___
to answer her. He shuffled ___3___
in his great coat, eager to get home ___4___
his cosy fireplace.
The girl was shivering
___5___
the cold. It had been ___6___
continuously for the past two days. The girl's
shoes, ___7___
were already thin were thoroughly soaked. Yet, her
sweet, angelic ___8___
did not lose ___9___
innocent smile. It only made her ___10___
more pathetic when she knitted her brows sometimes.
Her feet ___11___
sore with painful chilblains.
Someone shouted, "Watch ___12___,
girl !"
It was too ___13___
! The coach ws going too fast and the ___14___
had not seen her earlier. There was barely enough ___15___
for the little girl to take a step back. In her
hurry to get to ___16___,
the basket of matchsticks fell ___17___
the snow.
She ___18___
them up, wet and dirty from a puddle of melted snow.
The matchstick couldn't be used now. as she began to
make her way ___19___,
she realised that she had lost ___20___
of her shoes in the snow.
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