when Mary Lennox was sent to misselthwaite manor to live with her uncle, everyone said she was the most disagreeable-looking chil every seen .it was true ,too.she had a little thin face and a little thin body ,thin light hair and a sour expression .her hair was yellow,and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. her father had held a position under the english government and had always been busy and I'll himself,and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people,she had not wanted a little girl at all ,and when Mary was born she hander her over to the cair 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.so when she was a sickly,fretful , ugly little baby she was kept out of the way ,and when she became a sickly fretful,toddling thing she was kept out of the way also .she never remember seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her ayah and the other native servants ,and as they always obeyed her and gave 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 young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months.and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one.so if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learning her letter at all .

one frightfully hot morning,when she was about nine years old,she awakened feeling verry croos,and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her ayah

"why did you come ?"she said to the stange women."i will not let you stay. send my ayah to me ."

the woman looked frightened ,but she only stammered that ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat and kicked her,she looked only more frightened and repeated that is was not possible for the ayah to come to missie sahib.

there was something mysterious in the air that morning.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.but no one would tell her anything and her ayah didi not come .she was actually left along as the morning went on,and began to play by herself under a tree near the veranda.she pretended that she was ......

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