1 The child is to be brought here.
2 The child stared at him, but she stared most at her mother.
3 "She is such a plain child," Mrs. Crawford said pityingly, afterward.
4 She was not an affectionate child and had never cared much for any one.
5 He said I won't have a child dressed in black wanderin about like a lost soul, he said.
6 She had a very pretty manner, too, and Mary has the most unattractive ways I ever saw in a child.
7 The child ate some fruit and biscuits, and being thirsty she drank a glass of wine which stood nearly filled.
8 It was not a child's room, but a grown-up person's room, with gloomy old pictures on the walls and heavy old oak chairs.
9 As she was not at all a timid child and always did what she wanted to do, Mary went to the green door and turned the handle.
10 She did not know that this was because she was a disagreeable child; but then, of course, she did not know she was disagreeable.
11 She did not miss her at all, in fact, and as she was a self-absorbed child she gave her entire thought to herself, as she had always done.
12 When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
13 She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; and at last she got tired of watching her and began to talk in a brisk, hard voice.
14 She was very much absorbed in her own little boy and girl, and was rather glad to hand the child over to the woman Mr. Archibald Craven sent to meet her, in London.
15 If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.
16 Martha had "buttoned up" her little sisters and brothers but she had never seen a child who stood still and waited for another person to do things for her as if she had neither hands nor feet of her own.
17 She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible.
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