In a still, delicious room, with the summer morning sunshine
Had an active social life and enjoyed telling stories
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Una mujer que cría a doce chiquillos aprende algo más que el alfabeto. Los niños enseñan más que la aritmética.Susan Sowerby
Then I will chant, he said. And he began, looking like a strange boy spirit. The sun is shining— the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flowers are growing— the roots are stirring. That is the Mag...
That didn’t sound like Melchisedec, she said. It wasn’t scratchy enough.What? said Ermengarde, a little startled.Didn’t you think you heard something? asked Sara.N-no, Ermengarde faltered. Did you?Per...
Sólo muy de vez en cuando se puede estar seguro de que se va a vivir para siempre jamás, y ésa es una de las curiosidades de la vida. A veces sucede cuando uno se levanta al amanecer, ese momento de m...
Suddenly it seemed as if he might a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden again. He seemed too good to be true.
She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!
She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
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.
Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping y...
Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.
Might I, quavered Mary, might I have a bit of earth?
Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house, she said. You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.Mary did not know what wutherin' meant until she listened, and then she underst...
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.
It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for the place, as she always called it. Her mother had died when she was born, so she had never known or missed her. Her young, hands...
I am going to, answered
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...