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Quotation from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I--TRIED not to be anything else," she answered in a low voice--"even when I was coldest and hungriest--I tried not to be.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (spoken by Sara Crewe)

A Little Princess, Chapter 18, "I Tried Not to Be" (Project Gutenberg #146)

Portrait of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mr. Carrisford's household asks whether Sara feels she is a princess again now that she has been found.

Citation: "I--TRIED not to be anything else," she answered in a low voice--"even when I was coldest and hungriest--I tried not to be." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess, Chapter 18, "I Tried Not to Be" (Project Gutenberg #146). (id a-little-princess-q6)

Portrait: Frances Burnett, Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), Public domain.

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