Identifier: saracreweorwhathburnett (find matches)
Title: Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
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Publisher: New York C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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You will have no time for dolls in future, she said;you will have to work and improve yourself, and makeyourself useful. Sara kept the big odd eyes fixed on her teacher and saidnothing. Everything will be very different now, Miss Minchinwent on. I sent for you to talk to you and make youunderstand. Your father is dead. You have no friends.You have no money. You have no home and no one totake care of you. The little pale olive face twitched nervously, but thegreen-gray eyes did not move from Miss Minchins, andstill Sara said nothing. What are you staring at? demanded Miss Minchinsharply. Are you so stupid you dont understand whatI mean ? I tell you that you are quite alone in the world,and have no one to do anything for you, unless I chooseto keep you here. The truth was, Miss Minchin was in her worst mood.To be suddenly deprived of a large sum of money yearlyand a show pupil, and to find herself with a little beggar onher hands, was more than she could bear with any degreeof calmness.
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SHE SLOWLY ADVANCED INTO THE PARLOR, CLUTCHING HER DOLL. WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHINS. 17 Now listen to me, she went on, and remember whatI say. If you work hard and prepare to make yourself use-ful in a few years, I shall let you stay here. You are onlya child, but you are a sharp child, and you pick up thingsalmost without being taught. You speak French very well,and in a year or so you can begin to help with theyounger pupils. By the time you are fifteen you oughtto be able to do that much at least. I can speak French better than you, now, said Sara; I always spoke it with my papa in India. Which wasnot at all polite, but was painfully true ; because Miss Min-chin could not speak French at all, and, indeed, was not inthe least a clever person. But she was a hard, graspingbusiness woman; and, after the first shock of disappoint-ment, had seen that at very little expense to herself shemight prepare this clever, determined child to be very use-ful to her and save her the necessity o

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