Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

People never like me and I never like people

"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"