To speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend),
Lad—what’s names to th’ Joy Maker,
Himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over t...
Entirely out
Dream—the real—real dream.
Disagreeable
Una mujer que cría a doce chiquillos aprende algo más que el alfabeto. Los niños enseñan más que la aritmética.Susan Sowerby
They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so stron...
There mostly is rats an’ mice in attics. You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. I’ve got so I don’t mind ’em s’ long as they don’t run over my piller.Ugh! said Sara.You gets used to an...
There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like,
The mere seeing of Miss Sara would have been enough without meat pies. If there was time only for a few words, they were always friendly, merry words that put heart into one...Sara--who was only doing...
The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.
The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour. The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often.
So taking it, she stood among the dried, withered things and looked in tender regret at them.
She lay and listened to the quietness.
She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out of the earth to persuade her that he had not f...
Perhaps, she said, to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
Little Princess Little Lord
It's true, she said. Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.