Cinderella was a daughter of the house, and I am nobody's child.

That is what the village people say.

And only think if they had sent me to a charity school!" Edith and Grace gazed at her gravely.

Hetty stood with her hands behind her back, looking them in the eyes as she stated her own case.
"And you have nobody belonging to you, really, in the whole world ?" said Edith.
"Nobody," said Hetty, "and nothing.

At least nothing but a tiny linen chemise." "Did you drop down out of the clouds in that ?" asked Grace with widening eyes.
"No," said Hetty laughing; "but I came out of the sea in it.