However Many Years She Lived, Mary Always

That's What I Look At Some People For. I Like To Know About Them. I Think Them Over Afterward.

There's Naught As Nice As Th' Smell O' Good Clean Earth, Except Th' Smell O' Fresh Growin' Things When Th' Rain Falls On 'em.

Perhaps I Have Not Really A Good Temper At All, But If You Have Everything You Want And Everyone Is Kind To You, How Can You Help But Be Good-tempered? Perhaps I'm A Hideous Child, And No One Will Ever Know, Just Because I Never Have Any Trials.

Whatever Comes," She Said, "cannot Alter One Thing. If I Am A Princess In Rags And Tatters, I Can Be A Princess Inside. It Would Be Easy To Be A Princess If I Were Dressed In Cloth Of Gold, But It Is A Great Deal More Of A Triumph To Be One All The Time When No One Knows It.

As She Came Closer To Him She Noticed That There Was A Clean Fresh Scent Of Heather And Grass And Leaves About Him, Almost As If He Were Made Of Them. She Liked It Very Much And When She Looked Into His Funny Face With The Red Cheeks And Round Blue Eyes She Forgot That She Had Felt Shy.