To save you trembling in the cold sky, sell me all those matches.

"The Little Match Girl"—that was what the girl was called. She walked barefoot even in the cold sky, and her dirty basket was filled with many boxes of matches. Only occasionally would someone buy matches out of pity, and there were hardly any people who paid attention to the girl. The young man was one of them. He found the girl ridiculous and continued buying matches from her, and then one day the young man realized that his own heart had become tainted—