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1  "I like your mother," said Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Mrs. Medlock thinks a lot o mother.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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3  "I'll ask my mother about it," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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4  And her mother was such a pretty creature.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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5  I heard father and mother talking about him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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6  And we'd heard that her mother was a beauty.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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7  Mary was most attracted by the mother and Dickon.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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8  The child stared at him, but she stared most at her mother.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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9  I can tell you my mother's put to it to get porridge for 'em all.'
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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10  When Martha told stories of what "mother" said or did they always sounded comfortable.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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11  She frowned because she remembered that her father and mother had never talked to her about anything in particular.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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12  She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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13  She was grinding her teeth and saying this over and over again when she heard her mother come out on the veranda with some one.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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14  Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have learned some pretty ways too.
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15  Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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16  Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss her very much when she was gone.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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17  It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night, and that the few native servants who had not died also had left the house as quickly as they could get out of it, none of them even remembering that there was a Missie Sahib.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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