Summary: Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is leftin poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysteriousbenefactor.
1. Sara 2. A French Lesson 3. Ermengarde 4. Lottie 5. Becky 6. The Diamond Mines 7. The Diamond Mines Again 8. In the Attic 9. Melchisedec 10. The Indian Gentleman 11. Ram Dass 12. The Other Side of the Wall 13. One of the Populace 14. What Melchisedec Heard and Saw 15. The Magic 16. The Visitor 17. "It Is the Child" 18. "I Tried Not to Be" 19. Anne
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick andheavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shopwindows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girlsat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through thebig thoroughfares.
She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father,who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passingpeople with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a lookon her small face. It would have been an old look for a child oftwelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that shewas always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herselfremember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-uppeople and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived along, long time.
At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made fromBombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the bigship, of the Lascars passing silently to and fro on it, of the childrenplaying about on the hot deck, and of some young officers' wives whoused to try to make her talk to them and laugh at the things she said.
Principally, she was thinking of what a queer thing it was that at onetime one was in India in the blazing sun, and then in the middle of theocean, and then driving in a strange vehicle th