He soon saw the glass case upon the rock, and the beautiful maiden lying within, and he read also the golden inscription.
When he had examined it, he said to the Dwarfs, "Let me have this case, and I will pay what you like for it."
But the Dwarfs replied, "We will not sell it for all the gold in the world."
"Then give it to me," said the Prince; "for I cannot live without Snow-White. I will honor and protect her as long as I live."
When the Dwarfs saw that he was so much in earnest, they pitied him, and at last gave him the case, and the Prince ordered it to be carried away on the shoulders of his attendants.
Presently it happened that they stumbled over a rut, and with the shock the piece of poisoned apple which lay in Snow-White's mouth fell out.
Very soon she opened her eyes, and raising the lid of the glass case, she rose up and asked, "Where am I?"
Full of joy, the Prince answered, "You are safe with me."
And he told to her what she had suffered, and how he would rather have her than any other for his wife, and he asked her to accompany him home to the castle of the King his father.
Snow-White consented, and when they arrived there they were married with great splendor and magnificence.