A Little Princess Suffering Quotes

But after yesterday's deprivation of meals, the violent scene of last night, the prospect of hunger today, she must surely have broken down. It would be strange indeed if she did not come downstairs with pale cheeks and red eyes and an unhappy, humbled face. (16.24)

He was himself so well and happy, and so surrounded by cheerfulness and love, that desolation and broken health seemed pitifully unbearable things. (17.37)

"As to starving in the streets," he said," She might have starved more comfortably there than your attic." (18.60)