Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

sagte · 1911

Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have learned some pretty ways too.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

sagte · 1911

Eh!” she said, “but you are like an old woman. Don’t you care?”“It doesn’t matter,” said Mary, “whether I care or not.”“You are right enough there,” said Mrs. Medlock. “It doesn’t.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

sagte · 1911

So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

sagte · 1911

In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

sagte · 1905

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.