a little princess chapter 8

... Sara was a very fine little person, and had a gentle, appreciative way of saying, "If you please, Mariette," "Thank you, Mariette," which was very charming Mariette told the head housemaid that ... India As soon as lessons are over you must make each other's acquaintance." The pupils bowed ceremoniously, and Sara made a little curtsy, and then they sat down and looked at each other again ... her papa and other people had always spoken it to her, and she had read it and written it as she had read and written English Her papa loved it, and she loved it because he did Her dear mamma,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 21:15

... exhausted by excitement and contradictory stories A new pupil with a carriage and a pony and a maid, and a voyage from India to discuss, was not an ordinary acquaintance "My name's Ermengarde ... thing little girls always say to each other by way of beginning an acquaintance, but there was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it "What is your name?" she said To explain ... Ermengarde looked from her to the doll and back again "Can she walk?" she asked breathlessly "Yes," answered Sara "At least I believe she can At least I pretend I believe she can And that makes...

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... she said at last, "perhaps perhaps that is because Lavinia is growing." This was the result of a charitable recollection of having heard Miss Amelia say that Lavinia was growing so fast that she ... be related to an angel Sara went on talking Perhaps some people might think that what she said was rather like a fairy story, but it was all so real to her own imagination that Lottie began to ... years to make you twenty." "Dear me," said Lavinia, "how we can calculate!" In fact, it was not to be denied that sixteen and four made twenty and twenty was an age the most daring were scarcely...

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... her as if she were a creature from another world On this particular afternoon she had been taking her dancing lesson, and the afternoon on which the dancing master appeared was rather a grand ... Mariette was requested to make her as diaphanous and fine as possible Today a frock the color of a rose had been put on her, and Mariette had bought some real buds and made her a wreath to wear on ... mind could not grasp such amazing thoughts, and "an accident" meant to her a calamity in which some one was run over or fell off a ladder and was carried to "the 'orspital." "A' accident, miss,"...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... was the time when Miss Minchin and Miss Amelia were taking their tea in the sitting room sacred to themselves At this hour a great deal of talking was done, and a great many secrets changed hands, ... them at such a moment The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage "It makes me feel as if someone had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence "And as if ... deeply absorbed in the book about the Bastille, and she had had to recall several things rapidly when she realized that she must go and take care of her adopted child She was not an angel, and she...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... speech was about her It is not agreeable to stand in a schoolroom and have a speech made about you "You are aware, young ladies," the speech began for it was a speech "that dear Sara is eleven years ... in such an uproar There were lace collars and silk stockings and handkerchiefs; there was a jewel case containing a necklace and a tiara which looked quite as if they were made of real diamonds; ... catching at the back of a chair and feeling as if a splendid dream was fading away from her "Diamond mines spell ruin oftener than they spell wealth," said Mr Barrow "When a man is in the hands...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... odd and poor and almost like a servant It made her quite miserable, and she could nothing but break into a short hysterical laugh and exclaim aimlessly and as if without any meaning, "Oh, Sara, ... would rather not talk to me," Sara thought, "I will keep out of her way Miss Minchin makes that easy enough." Miss Minchin made it so easy that at last they scarcely saw each other at all At that ... she went downstairs to light the kitchen fire And when night came Sara always heard the humble knock at her door which meant that her handmaid was ready to help her again if she was needed During...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... looking out of a window "Sara!" she cried, aghast "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world Her short legs had seemed to have been ... was made Nobody said, `Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?'" She had sat so quietly that the rat had begun to take courage He was very much afraid of her, but perhaps he had a heart like the sparrow ... She sat down on it for a few minutes and let her head drop in her hands The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse just as perhaps prisoners feel a little...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... I told papa afterward, and he laughed and said it was true I am sure the Large Family have fat, comfortable armchairs and sofas, and I can see that their red-flowery wallpaper is exactly like ... children's party, and just as Sara was about to pass the door they were crossing the pavement to get into the carriage which was waiting for them Veronica Eustacia and Rosalind Gladys, in white-lace ... means All the furniture was rich and beautiful, and a great deal of it was Oriental Wonderful rugs and draperies and ornaments were taken from the vans, many pictures, and books enough for a...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... it was not the head or body of a little girl or a housemaid; it was the picturesque white-swathed form and dark-faced, gleaming-eyed, whiteturbaned head of a native Indian man-servant "a Lascar," ... windows, and regain the unworthy little animal But he was evidently afraid Sara might think he was taking a great liberty and perhaps would not let him come But Sara gave him leave at once "Can you ... enraged that she actually flew at her and boxed her ears exactly as the neatherd's wife had boxed King Alfred's It made Sara start She wakened from her dream at the shock, and, catching her breath,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... mines particular diamond ones" with a side glance at Sara "We all know somethin' ofthem." "He felt as my papa felt," Sara thought "He was ill as my papa was; but he did not die." So her heart was ... elder little girls-the Janet and Nora who had been so alarmed when their small brother Donald had given Sara his sixpence He had, in fact, a very tender place in his heart for all children, and particularly ... me a question Sometimes I dream of him at night, and he always stands before me and asks the same question in words Can you guess what he says, Carmichael?" Mr Carmichael answered him in a rather...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 07:16

... she saw Sara glance at the buns "Four buns, if you please," said Sara "Those at a penny each." The woman went to the window and put some in a paper bag Sara noticed that she put in six "I said ... secretary, who was light and young, slipped through the skylight as noiselessly as Ram Dass had done; and he caught a last glimpse of Melchisedec's vanishing tail "Was that a rat?" he asked Ram Dass ... there, and really quaked and trembled as he peeped out furtively and with great caution to watch what was going on The attic had been very still all the day after Sara had left it in the early...

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