which often made them stare at her.

“She’s got more airs and graces than if she come from Buckingham Palace, that young one,” said the cook, chuckling a little sometimes. “I lose my temper with her often enough, but I will say she never forgets her manners. `If you please, cook’; `Will you be so kind, cook?’ `I beg your pardon, cook’; `May I trouble you, cook?’ She drops ‘em about the kitchen as if they was nothing.”

The morning after the interview with Ram Dass and his monkey, Sara was in the


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have to work and improve yourself and make yourself useful.”

Sara kept her big, strange eyes fixed on her, and said not a word.

“Everything will be very different now,” Miss Minchin went on. “I suppose Miss Amelia has explained matters to you.”

“Yes,” answered Sara. “My papa is dead. He left me no


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