Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, butas she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss hervery much when she was gone. She did not miss her at all, in fact, and as she was a self-absorbedchild she gave her entire thought to herself, as she had always done. If she had been older shewould no doubt have been very anxious at being left alone in the world, but she was very young, and as she had always been taken care of, she ...
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Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, butas she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss hervery much when she was gone. She did not miss her at all, in fact, and as she was a self-absorbedchild she gave her entire thought to herself, as she had always done. If she had been older shewould no doubt have been very anxious at being left alone in the world, but she was very young, and as she had always been taken care of, she supposed she always would be. What she thoughtwas that she would like to know if she was going to nice people, who would be polite to her andgive her her own way as her Ayah and the other native servants had done.She knew that she was not going to stay at the English clergyman's house where she wastaken at first. She did not want to stay. The English clergyman was poor and he had five childrennearly all the same age and they wore shabby clothes and were always quarreling and snatchingtoys from each other. Mary hated their untidy bungalow and was so disagreeable to them thatafter the first day or two nobody would play with her. By the second day they had given her anickname which made her furious.It was Basil who thought of it first. Basil was a little boy with impudent blue eyes and aturned-up nose, and Mary hated him. She was playing by herself under a tree, just as she hadbeen playing the day the cholera broke out. She was making heaps of earth and paths for agarden and Basil came and stood near to watch her. Presently he got rather interested andsuddenly made a suggestion."Why don't you put a heap of stones there and pretend it is a rockery?" he said. "There in themiddle," and he leaned over her to point."Go away!" cried Mary. "I don't want boys. Go away!"For a moment Basil looked angry, and then he began to tease. He was always teasing hissisters. He danced round and round her and made faces and sang and laughed.
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