It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille—men who had spent so many years in dungeons that when they were dragged out by...
It sounds nicer than it seems in the book, she would say. I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story. It is a story,...
I--haven’t any mamma in this school.Sara saw the danger signal, and came out of her dream. She took hold of the chubby hand and pulled her close to her side with a coaxing little laugh.I will be your...
I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
I like you! I like you! she cried out, pattering down the walk; and she chirped and tried to whistle, which last she did not know how to do in the least. But the robin seemed to be quite satisfied and...
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
I am almost ashamed to answer,' she said. 'As I have said before, EmilyFox-Seton has become the lodestar of my existence. I cannot live withouther. She has walked over to Maundell to make sure that we...
How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this world understands it. P...
He plain-looking, miss, ain’t he? said Becky.He looks like a very ugly baby, laughed Sara. I beg your pardon, monkey; but I’m glad you are not a baby. Your mother be proud of you, and no one would d...
Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her bl...
Donde cuides una rosa, muchacho, No puede crecer un cardo
As to answering, though, said Sara, trying to console herself, I don’t answer very often. I never answer when I can help it. When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to...
The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me...
«Le pido perdón por haberme reído, si lo considera una ofensa -replicó por fin-; pero no me disculparé por pensar.»
Thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as l...
It is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as elect...
Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only
In a still, delicious room, with the summer morning sunshine
Has the
Difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she...