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Children's Fiction: Classic Fiction  Download eBook     Once on
a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy
in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the
shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd–looking
little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather
slowly through the big 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 passing people
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
look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a
child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was,
however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things
and could not herself remember any time when she had not been
thinking things about grown–up people and the world they
belonged to. She felt as if she