All Women Are Princesses , It Is

...and Her Mother Had Been A Great Beauty Who Cared Only To Go To Parties And Amuse Herself With Gay Parties.

Imagine, If You Can, What The Rest Of The Evening Was Like. How They Crouched By The Fire Which Blazed And Leaped And Made Much Of Itself In The Little Grate. How They Removed The Covers Of The Dishes, And Found Rich, Hot Savory Soup, Which Was A Meal In Itself, And Sandwiches And Toast And Muffins Enough For Both Of Them.

And The Secret Garden Bloomed And Bloomed And Every Morning Revealed New Miracles.

When Mary Lennox Was Sent To Misselthwaite Manor To Live With Her Uncle Everybody Said She Was The Most Disagreeable-looking Child Ever Seen. It Was True Too . . . She Was As Tyrannical And Selfish A Little Pig As Ever Lived.

Much More Surprising Things Can Happen To Anyone Who, When A Disagreeable Or Discouraged Thought Comes Into His Mind, Just Has The Sense To Remember In Time And Push It Out By Putting In An Agreeable, Determinedly Courageous One. Two Things Cannot Be In One Place.