A Little Princess



Sara looked down and flushed a little, because she thought her pet fancy might not be easy for strangers—even nice ones—to understand at first.

“I—TRIED not to be anything else,” she answered in a low voice— “even when I was coldest and hungriest—I tried not to be.”

“Now it will not be necessary to try,” said Miss Minchin, acidly, as Ram Dass salaamed her out of the room.

She returned home and, going to her sitting room,


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Sara looked down and flushed a little, because she thought her pet fancy might not be easy for strangers—even nice ones—to understand at first.

“I—TRIED not to be anything else,” she answered in a low voice— “even when I was coldest and hungriest—I tried not to be.”

“Now it will not be necessary to try,” said Miss Minchin, acidly, as Ram Dass salaamed her out of the room.

She returned home and, going to her sitting room,


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