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1  The native servants were always saying it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The native servants she had been used to in India were not in the least like this.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Nothing was done in its regular order and several of the native servants seemed missing, while those whom Mary saw slunk or hurried about with ashy and scared faces.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The little girl did not offer to help her, because in India native servants always picked up or carried things and it seemed quite proper that other people should wait on one.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  What she thought was that she would like to know if she was going to nice people, who would be polite to her and give her her own way as her Ayah and the other native servants had done.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  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
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I