Sara curled herself up in the window-seat, opened a book, and began to read. It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille—me...
Perhaps it is the key to the garden!
Naturally, Jessie giggled again. She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
Medlock said I was to carry tha' breakfast an' tea an' dinner into th' room next to this. It's been made into a nursery for thee. I'll help thee on with thy clothes if tha'll get out o' bed. If th' bu...
Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be al...
Just at that moment Ermengarde almost jumped off the bed, she was so startled by a sound she heard. It was like two distinct knocks on the wall.What is that? she exclaimed.Sara got up from the floor a...
It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.
It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matt...
It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth,
In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, t...
If I was a princess-a real princess, she murmured, I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if i am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for the people. Things like this....
I shall pretend that, she said; and it will be a great comfort.Ermengarde was at once enraptured and awed.And will you tell me all about it? she said. May I creep up here at night, whenever it is safe...
I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - an...
I don't know who it is, she said; but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
I don't know what it is to be hungry,
Everything is made out of Magic,
Eh! said Martha. It's like she says: `A woman as brings up twelve children learns something besides her AB C. Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things
Da quando sono nato, non ho mai preso un raffreddore. Sono sempre stato in giro per la brughiera con ogni tempo, come i conigli. La mamma dice che ho respirato troppa aria fresca, in dodici anni, per...
And mines with diamonds in ’em! said the cook. No savin’s of mine never goes into no mines--particular diamond ones--with a side glance at Sara. We all know somethin’ of .
You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order you to execution. I only spare you because I am a princess, and you are a poor, stupid...