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A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
"I Tried Not to Be" |
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"Yes, my dear--yes! He is kind and good, and he was sorry for you, for little lost Sara Crewe's sake." The library door opened and Mr. Carmichael appeared, calling Sara to him with a gesture. "Mr. Carrisford is better already," he said. "He wants you to come to him." Sara did not wait. When the Indian gentleman looked at her as she entered, he saw that her face was all alight. She went and stood before his chair, with her hands clasped together against her breast. "You sent the things to me," she said, in a joyful emotional little voice, "the beautiful, beautiful things? YOU sent them!" "Yes, poor, dear child, I did," he answered her. He was weak and broken with long illness and trouble, but he looked at her with the look she remembered in her father's eyes--that look of loving her and wanting to take her in his arms. It made her kneel down by him, just as she used to kneel by her father when they were the dearest friends and lovers in the world. "Then it is you who are my friend," she said; "it is you who are my friend!" And she dropped her face on his thin hand and kissed it again and again. "The man will be himself again in three weeks," Mr. Carmichael said aside to his wife. "Look at his face already." |
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