Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote
Things happen to people by accident, she used to say. A lot of nice accidents have happened to me. It just that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember things when I learned them. It just happened that I was born with a father who was beautiful and nice and clever, and could give me everything I liked. Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? I don’t know--looking quite serious--how I shall ever find out whether I am really a nice child or a horrid one. Perhaps I’m a child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.Lavinia has no trials, said Ermengarde, stolidly, and she is horrid enough.
Things happen to people by accident, she used to say. A lot of nice accidents have happened to me. It just that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember things when I learned them. It just happened that I was born with a father who was beautiful and nice and clever, and could give me everything I liked. Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? I don’t know--looking quite serious--how I shall ever find out whether I am really a nice child or a horrid one. Perhaps I’m a child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.Lavinia has no trials, said Ermengarde, stolidly, and she is horrid enough.
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