Curled herself up in the window-seat, opened a book, and began to read.
As the plans of march made by great generals in
Will you--tell me--about the diamond mines?The diamond mines? broke out Lavinia. Nasty, little spoiled thing, I should like to her!Sara got up quickly on her feet. It must be remembered that she had...
When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word—just to look at them and THINK. Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it, Miss Amelia looks frightened, and...
When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter...
To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his native land — which in dark, foggy days in London sometimes seemed world...
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 jus...
The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun to move in them. It was no new and rare thing, but an ancient and common...
The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes—clothes so grand and rich that only a very young and inexperienced man would have bought them for a mite of a child who was...
She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich shoul...
She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone
Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
Papa won’t be very long now, she said. May we talk about the lost little girl?I don’t think I could talk much about anything else just now, the Indian gentleman answered, knitting his forehead with a...
One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah. W...
Now, young ladies, I have a few words to say to you, she announced.She’s going to make a speech, whispered one of the girls. I wish it was over.Sara felt rather uncomfortable. As this was her party, i...
Non, monsieur. Je n'ai pas le canif de mon oncle.' That
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable...
It’s the best fun I ever had in my life—shut in here an’ wakenin’ up a garden.