A Little Princess / Маленькая принцесса. Книга для чтения на английском языке

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Фрэнсис Элиза Бёрнетт. A Little Princess / Маленькая принцесса. Книга для чтения на английском языке

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

Vocabulary

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B

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D

E

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J

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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[1] with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares[2].

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[4], 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 grownup people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

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“What an original child!” she said. “What a darling little creature!”

“Yes,” said Captain Crewe, drawing Sara close. “She is a darling little creature. Take great care of her for me, Miss Minchin.”

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