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  • Sara finds a handmade pincushion and knows instantly it's from Becky - only to be confused when she finds a card from Miss Amelia on it. The pincushion actually was from Becky but she fished Miss Amelia's card out of the trash because she wanted to give Sara a card with her present.
  • Miss Minchin's flights of rage in the face of Sara's composure. Even Lavinia and Jessie find it funny to watch.
  • Three of the Carmichael children go to visit the Indian Gentleman to cheer him up, though Janet (the eldest) says that they have to do it very quietly because he is ill. Her younger brother doesn't quite understand this.
  • Becky being forced to duck under the table to hide from Miss Minchin when she comes into the room with Mr Barrows, though it leads to a major Tearjerker.
  • Musing to Ermengarde, Sara wonders if she's a nice child only because she has no trials. Ermengarde phlegmatically points out that Lavinia has no trials either and she is quite nasty without them. Sarah's seven-year-old response (borrowed from overhearing Miss Minchin discussing Lavinia's temper) is quite quaint.
    Sara: Well, perhaps - perhaps that is because Lavinia is growing.
  • Miss Amelia and Miss Minchin trying to deal with Lottie in the middle of a tantrum while being forced to shout to make themselves heard.
    "What is she crying for?" [Miss Minchin] almost yelled.
    "Oh—oh—oh!" Sara heard; "I haven't got any mam-ma-a!"
    "Oh, Lottie!" screamed Miss Amelia. "Do stop, darling! Don't cry! Please don't!"
  • Sara writes back to her father's letter asking whether she would like a doll for her eleventh birthday. The response actually makes Captain Crewe, now sick with the illness that will kill him, laugh out loud.
    "I am getting very old," she wrote; "you see, I shall never live to have another doll given me. This will be my last doll. There is something solemn about it. If I could write poetry, I am sure a poem about 'A Last Doll' would be very nice. But I cannot write poetry. I have tried, and it made me laugh. It did not sound like Watts or Coleridge or Shakespeare at all."

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