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A Little Princess [original and reconstructed titles]

1 Bombay -- the city of temples where dreams are magically woven into the fabric of real life.

2 Captain Richard Crewe

Norman Kerry

3 "My daddy - I don't want to go away from here."

4 So they travelled across the jeweled seas - from India's flaming skies of cobalt and crimson to the grey masked streets of London.

5 Miss Minchin's school for select young ladies.

6 Sophronia Minchin and her Sister Amelia

7 "It's the rich girl Miss Minchin says is provided for like 'a Little Princess'."

8 "Such a happy little crea- ture will be a treasure in our establishment."

9 "I don't like it here, but I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle!"

10 "Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?"

11 "I know you by heart, my daddy. You are inside my heart."

12 "I have just told Emily  this is only a 'make-believe' prison - and if we study hard we will soon be allowed to escape from it."

13 "Undoubtedly our food isn't good enough for 'a little Princess'!"

14 But time is a healing balm to the heart. Scars of little children.

15 "My dear friend - the reason why I have invested so heavily in your diamond mine is for Sara's future."

16 "I begs your pardon, Miss - - - but you dropped somethin'."

17 The drudge of the school is the slavey Becky-of-All-Work.

Zasu Pitts

18 "I haven't any c-cake ... and I haven't any m - m - mother."

19 "I haven't any mother either - but I believe they are watching over us all the time, even if we cannot see them."

20 "T'warn't me touched a crumb, 'onest, Miss."

21 "I'm only a little girl like you, Becky, and it's just an accident that I'm not you and you're not me."

22 "All my life I've dreamed of ownin' beads, Miss."

23 "That's why you got them, Becky. It's because you 'dreamed true' - and true dreams are always answered."

24 "Them's funny words, them is - 'dream true' - says she."

25 At midnight there comes a twinkling of tiptoes into the palace of the Little Princess to hear her wonderous fairy stories.

26 "If you close your eyes you can see fairy stories so much better in the dark!"

27 "Once upon a time a beautiful slave girl named Morgiana fell in love with her master's poor brother, Ali Baba -"

28 "Go, brother! Thou art too poor to buy my slave girl, Morgiana."

29 "Open, Sesame!"

30 "Close, Sesame!"

31 "Open, Sesame!"

32 "Here comes thy honorable wife - Mrs. Cassin!"

33 "Ali Baba borrows a measuring cup to weigh the jewels taken from the cave of the Forty Thieves."

34 "A few drops of honey - and what he measures will stick to the bottom of the flagon!"

35 "Go thou! Follow him! He has discovered a world of riches!"

36 "Cassin, following Ali Baba to the cave, overheard the magic pass-words - 'Open, Sesame!' and 'Close, Sesame'!"

37 "Open - Hay!"

38 "Open - Barley!"

39 "Ah-ha! I smell a stranger!"

40 "Out - Ostrich!"

41 "As he is a married man, he is undoubtedly a gossip! And our secret is betrayed to Mrs. Cassin!"

42 "The morning after the new moon we enter the house of Cassin and provide mourning biers for - ALL HIS RELATIONS!"

43 "My 'ead bumps into the slats, Miss - w'en you speaks of murderin' the whole fambly!"

44 "By the morning after the new moon Ali Baba has gone to live with Cassin's widow - while he courts Morgiana."

45 "I am an oil merchant travelling to Bagdad. Weary, I beg your hospitality for the night."

46 "One moment more - and the Captain of the Forty Thieves would have stabbed you!"

47 "Our slaves have poured boiling oil into the jars where the Thieves were hidden."

48 "I will give you your freedom - and then -"

49 "- wot then -- Miss?"

50 "You shall not be punished, Sara. It is a promise I made to your father."

51 The first crimson and gold of Autumn marks a birthday at Miss Minchin's        school.

Sara Crewe is ten.

52 "I am Mr. Barrows -- Capt. Crewe's solicitor."

53 "I have come to speak to you about the affairs of the late Capt. Crewe."

54 "The late Capt. Crewe! You don't mean to tell me that Capt. Crewe is - - - !"

55 "This letter says that Capt. Crewe put his entire fortune into a diamond mine con- trolled by a friend. When this friend betrayed him, the shock - was fatal!"

56 "Do you mean to tell me that Sara has nothing! That she is left on my hands a little pauper, instead of an heiress?"

57 "It is monstrous! At this very moment, dressed in silk gauze and lace petti- coats, she is giving a party - - at my expense!"

58 "Has Sara Crewe a black frock in her sumptuous wardrobe - a black one?"

59 "I know what you have for me! - - a letter from my Daddy!"

60 "Your Father -- is dead!"

61 "Dear God - why did you take my Daddy away from me?"

62 Dusk - afterglow - and night. Eternal night in the heart of    Sara Crewe

63 "Instead of turning you into the streets as I should do - you will be kept here to work like - - like Becky."

64 "Don't you intend to thank me for my kindness in giving you a home?"

65 "You are not kind - and this is not a home."

66 "Becky! Do you hear! My papa is dead - - he is dead in India - thousands of miles away!"

67 "Papa! Papa dear - I - want - you!

68 To Sara the terrible months that passed were as Januarys -- bleak and without hope.

69 "It's so long since we have eaten well - - I guess we're full of hollows."

70 To the house adjoining Miss Minchin's school comes John Garrisford.

71 "Just try to remember that after all, Becky, we are both Princesses - inside!"

72 "The thought ain't very fillin', Miss."

73 "Never open a door too quickly, Becky. We might surprise the dolls at play."

74 "Why, don't you know, Becky - when we're not around the dolls all come to life?"

75 "Why don't they move when we're lookin', Miss?"

76 "Because - they're afraid if we caught them we might put them to work."

77 "Pardon me, Miss, but was you ever dropped on your 'ead w'en you was little?"

78 With the Christmas holidays merrily close, come echoes of the joyous preparations.

79 "And how do you enjoy rags, Your Royal Highness?"

80 "If I could just slap you once - but only gutter children fight."

81 "Ram Dass - ask your pardon, Missee Sahib, but the Evil One - he escape me!"

82 "Thinking so many stories, Becky, is making me see fearfully queer things!"

83 "You ain't gettin' balmy, Miss?"

84 "Many days have I watched her from my window. A friend of all little things - and she is cold - hungry."

85 A week before the shadow of old Santa speeds across the house tops.

86 "I can see a big, fat, steaming turkey bulging with dressing and oozing with gravy."

87 "I can smell a Christmas pudding bursting with raisins an' spices an' citron."

88 "I can hear the mealy chestnuts a'poppin' in the fireplace."

89 "Please don't go on, Miss, your words is too weakenin'."

90 "Come and watch from my attic window, Sahib. Indian believe that only great hap- piness can come through the happiness of others."

91 "Becky! I've got 'em again!"

92 "Tell me the truth, Becky, do you see what I see?"

93 "I not only sees but I smells it, says I."

94 "Eat - Becky - EAT!"

95 "Please, musahib - tell her I am not a thief!"

96 "Who are you, and where did you come from?"

97 "And I - I am Capt. Crewe's best friend!"

98 "After Capt. Crewe's death, all his papers were destroyed. For two years we have searched for his daughter."

99 "Capt. Crewe died of a broken heart, believing that I, his best friend, had lured him into an enterprise which stripped him of his entire fortune - -"

100 "Stricken with fever in the desert, I returned to Bombay - but I arrived there too late."

101 "The diamond mines are fabulously rich - - and Sara Crewe is heiress to a million pounds!"

102 "So friends in parting, just   a word: Keep faith and aye 'dream     true': Your prayers will never go     unheard You'll be - like Sara Crewe."

THE END

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