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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A LITTLE PRINCESS
Summary: Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left
in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious
benefactor.

CONTENTS
1. Sara 2. A French Lesson 3. Ermengarde 4. Lottie 5. Becky 6. The
Diamond Mines 7. The Diamond Mines Again 8. In the Attic 9.
Melchisedec 10. The Indian Gentleman 11. Ram Dass 12. The Other
Side of the Wall 13. One of the Populace 14. What Melchisedec Heard
and Saw 15. The Magic 16. The Visitor 17. "It Is the Child" 18. "I
Tried Not to Be" 19. Anne

A Little Princess
1

Sara
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and
heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop
windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd- looking little girl
sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big
thoroughfares.
She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father,
who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing
people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on
her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and
Sara Crewe was only seven. 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 belonged to. She felt as if she had
lived a long, long time.
At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made
from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the
big ship, of the Lascars passing silently to and