"I don't answer very often. I never answer when I can help it. When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word-- just to look at them and THINK... ... When you will not fly into a passion people know you are strong enough to hold in your rage... ... There's nothi"
""...and you will grow so fast that it will seem scarcely a year before you are big enough and clever enough to come back and take care of papa.""
""Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered, "I know you by heart, you are inside my heart.""
""If I go on talking and talking," she said, "and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.""
""Oh," he said, "She's better fun every year she lives. God grant this business may right itself and leave me free to run home and see her. What wouldn't I give to have her little arms round my neck this minute! What WOULDN'T I give!""
"I promised him I would bear it. And I will. You have to bear things. Think what soldiers bear! Papa is a soldier. If there was a war he would have to bear marching and thirstiness and, perhaps, deep wounds. And he would never say a word---not one word."
作者简介
弗朗西斯·霍奇森·伯内特,Frances Hodgson Burnett(1849-1924)是英国小说家,她的儿童文学作品一直为读者喜爱,其中著名的有《小公主》(A Little Princess)、《秘密花园》(The SecretGarden)和《小爵爷》(Little Lord Fauntleroy)。