a-little-princess

Perhaps you can feel if you can__ hear,_ was her fancy. __erhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don__ know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,_ she mused. __obody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: __h, a horrid rat!_ I shouldn__ like people to scream and jump and say: __h, a horrid Sara!_ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It__ so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: __ouldn__ you rather be a sparrow?