A collaboration-piece for the ”Show your deviantSTYLE contest 2010”.
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Here is the original excerpt, the last paragraph from H.C. Andersen's story ”The Little Match Girl”:
”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.”
The illustration used as a basis was originally made by Vilhelm Pedersen (1820–1859) and is public domain. Here's a link to that as well: [link]