Цитаты из книг автора «Эдит Несбит»

таком не подозревали и собирались воплотить с помощью Саммиада множество самых радужных планов. Тем более

Trouble, thought, and hard work are the only three spells the fairies have left us, so of course he had to use them.

Like most great men, this King Alfred had a good mother. She used to read to him, when he was little, out of a great book with gold and precious stones on the cover, and inside beautiful songs and poetry. And one day she said to the young princes, who were all very fond of being read to out of this splendid book — "Since you like the book so much, I will give it to the one who is first able to read it, and to say all the poetry in it by heart."

‘When Aunt Emmeline sees how beautiful it is she’ll want to have the whole house scarved and leoparded, I shouldn’t wonder,’ said Charlotte, hanging the pink scarf over a picture of a blind girl sitting on an orange, which is called ‘Hope.’