A Reader's Guide

" There are not many princesses, Miss Minchin, who are richer than your little charity pupil Sara Crewe, will be. Mr. Carrisford has been searching for her for nearly two years; he has found her at last, and he will keep her. "

" Sara was praised for her quickness at her lessons, for her good manners, for her amiability to her fellow-pupils, for her generosity.."

"She worked like a drudge; she tramped through the wet streets, carrying parcels and baskets; she laboured with the childish inattention of the little ones' French lessons; as she became shabbier and more forlorn-looking.. She was treated as if she was nobody's concern.."

"Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted."

"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."