Sara--who was only doing what she unconsciously liked better than anything else, Nature having made her for a giver--had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor...
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...
People never like me and I never like people, she thought. And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.
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 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...
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....
If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.
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.
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
Don’t chirrup so loud, Donald, Janet said. When you come to cheer an ill person up you don’t cheer him up at the top of your voice. Perhaps cheering up is too loud, Mr. Carrisford? turning to the Indi...
Do you love your father more than anything else in all the whole world?Ermengarde’s mouth fell open a little. She knew that it would be far from behaving like a respectable child at a select seminary...
Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he
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...
Cose assai sorprendenti possono accadere a chi, avendo nella mente un pensiero sgradevole e scoraggiante, abbia il buonsenso di accorgersene e scacciarlo via in tempo sostituendolo con un altro pensie...
Was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and h...