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and tries to find the charwoman's. He goes back to her to tell her that he cannot find it. She tells him that it was the one of a beautiful young girl. He brings it to her, and when the woman and her shadow reunite, she is transformed back into that beautiful girl, as if the shadow were casting her.
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