Frances Eliza Burnett

And she began  from that minute to feel rather a grudge against her show pupil

very selfish, disagreeable, bad-tempered

belong to any one even when her father and mother had been alive. Other children

Mary was an odd, determined

чтобы иметь крышу над головой и хоть сколько-нибудь приличный гардероб, требуются и ум, и находчивость

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.

Просто мальчик жил рядом с доброй и нежной душой и воспитывался в добрых помыслах и заботе о людях.Возможно ,это не так уж и много ,но это лучшее,что есть в жизни.