She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.

She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

According to Rachael Hanel, " She lived off her savings, interest income from a trust, money from her parents, and selling her simple, Rubenesque line drawings.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

She was later released and after returning to San Francisco spoke out against deprograming but declined to press legal charges against her parents.

She and her two brothers were coming to America to meet their parents, who had moved to New York two years prior.

She thinks Ash murdered her parents at first, but when the evil spirits unleash against them, she realizes the truth and finds out her only way to survive is to help Ash defeat the spirits.

She was her parents ' tenth child, sickly from birth.

She learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year ( 1989 ).

She was unmarried as her parents had refused to let her marry into a northern abolitionist family.

She travelled the world with her parents from an early age.

She grew up in Palmdale, California, the daughter of Norwegian-American parents, Elsie Soliah ( née Engstrom ) and Palmdale High School English teacher and coach Martin Soliah.

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

She said her real father was Indian and that she was the result of an " unregistered alliance " between her parents.

She was her parents ' youngest child, but her father was murdered in 1052 and one year later ( 1053 ) her older sister Beatrice ( namesake of their mother ) also died.

She encourages him to seek the hospitality of her parents, Arete and Alcinous, or Alkinous.

She preferred that parents or teachers read aloud those texts ( such as Plutarch and the Old Testament ), making omissions only where necessary.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

She was raised by her parents, Jacqueline and Clancy Bouvier.

She attended one of O ' Sullivan's films playing in London's West End and told her parents of her ambitions to become an actress.

She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents ' friendship with writer Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

She stayed with Sam Green, a free black minister living in East New Market, Maryland ; she also hid near her parents ' home at Poplar Neck in Caroline County, Maryland.

She also made periodic trips back to Auburn, to visit her family and care for her parents.

She worked various jobs to support her elderly parents, and took in boarders to help pay the bills.