Produced by Colin Bell, Andrew Wainwright, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S [Illustration: "SHE LAID HER DOLL, EMILY, ACROSS HER KNEES, AND PUT HER FACE DOWN UPON HER, AND HER ARMS AROUND HER, AND SAT THERE, NOT SAYING ONE WORD, NOT MAKING ONE SOUND."] SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1891 COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. [_All rights reserved._] Press of J. J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FROM DRAWINGS BY REGINALD B. BIRCH. "She laid her doll, Emily, across her knees, and put her face down upon her, and her arms around her, and sat there, not saying one word, not making one sound." Frontispiece. "She slowly advanced into the parlor, clutching her doll." Page 15 "Eat it," said Sara, "and you will not be so hungry." " 41 "He was waiting for his Master to come out to the carriage, and Sara stopped and spoke a few words to him." " 49 "The monkey seemed much interested in her remarks." " 63 "He drew her small, dark head down upon his knee and stroked her hair." " 79 [Illustration] SARA CREWE; OR, WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S. In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London. Her home was a large, dull, tall one, in a large, dull square, where all the houses were alike, and all the sparrows were alike, and where all the door-knockers made the same heavy sound, and on still days--and nearly all the days were still--seemed to resound through the entire row in which the knock was knocked. On Miss Minchin's door there was a brass plate. On the brass plate there was inscribed in black letters, +----------------------------------------+ | | | MISS MINCHIN'S | | | | SELECT SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES. | | | +----------------------------------------+