He felt as my papa felt, Sara thought. He was ill as my papa was; but he did not die.So her heart was more drawn to him than before. When she was sent out at night she used sometimes to feel quite gla...
Fresh air won’t tire me, said the young Rajah.
But after a few days spent almost entirely out of doors she wakened
And as she lay and listened, it was as if she were not only listening but waiting for something. She did not know at all what she was waiting for, but waiting she was.
To speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend),
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...
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...
As if
You are nicer than I am, said Sara. I was too proud to try and make friends. You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps--wrinkling he...
What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it makes her learn her lessons better. She wants Ermengarde to be one, too, but Ermenga...
Victorian and touchingly respectable. I have been crying, confessed Lady Agatha. I was afraid so, Lady Agatha, said Emily.
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 worst thing never quite comes.
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 magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw...
The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown up people and the world they belon...