The secret garden — Chapter One The child who was left behind

　　"She"s rather ugly, isn"t she?" Mrs.Medlock said to the English women. "We heard her mother was beautiful. The child did not receive her mother"s looks!"

　　"Oh, I think she"ll be prettier when she"s older," said the other woman kindly."She"s just very thin. The weather in India is not good for young children."

　　"Well, there"s nothing for children at Misselthwaite Manor," said Mrs.Medlock. Misselthwaite Manor was Mrs.Archibald Craven"s house.

　　The women thought Mary was not listening, but she was. She was looking at all the sights and sounds of London. She wondered what her uncle would be like. Was he really a hunchback? She had never seen a hunchback. Maybe India didn"t have them.

　　Since she had been living with the Crawfords, Mary had felt lonely. She thought about the Crawford children. They seemed to belong with their parents. who loved them. She felt that her parents hadn"t loved her. None of the servants had loved her, either. She did not know that this was because she was an unpleasant child. No one had ever taught her to be kind. Mary did not even know that she was unpleasant. She often thought that others were unpleasant. But she did not know that she was unpleasant, herself.

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