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  • Mary did not miss her mother at all. After all she had not really known her mother. So

  • now, after the death of her parents, she thought only of herself. She hoped she was going to

  • live with nice people who would let her do whatever she wanted.

  • At first she was taken to the home of the local English minister. He had five children

  • who were always quarreling and snatching toys from each other. Mary hated staying at their

  • crowded, messy house. She was so disagreeable to the children that, after the first day

  • or two, nobody would play with her. One day Mary was playing by herself under

  • a tree. She was pretending to make a garden, just as she had been doing the day cholera

  • broke out. One of the little boys, Basil, stood nearby watching her.

  • "You are going to be sent home at the end of the week," Basil said to her. "And we're

  • all glad about it." "I'm glad too," answered Mary. "Where is home?"

  • "You don't know where home is?" Basil said scornfully. "It's England of course. You are

  • going to live with your uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven."

  • Mary frowned. "I don't know anything about him."

  • "Of course you don't. You don't know anything," said Basil. "But I heard Father and Mother

  • talking about him. He lives in a big, old house called Misselthwaite Manor. No one goes

  • near him. He's a hunchback and he's horrid." "I don't believe you." Mary turned her back

  • and stuck her fingers in her ears because she didn't want to hear any more. But she

  • thought it over a great deal afterward. What sort of place was she going to? What would

  • her uncle be like? What was a hunchback anyway? What did one look like?

  • Mary made the long voyage to England under the care of an officer's wife who was taking

  • her children to boarding school. The officer's wife was too busy with her own little boy

  • and girl to pay much attention to Mary. In London the officer's wife handed Mary over

  • to Mrs. Medlock, the woman who was the housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor.

  • "My word! She's a plain little thing!" exclaimed Mrs. Medlock. "And we'd heard her mother was

  • a beauty." "Perhaps she will improve as she grows older,"

  • said the officer's wife. The two women thought that Mary could not

  • hear them because she was standing a little apart from them, but she heard every word.

  • She thought Mrs. Medlock was the most disagreeable-looking woman she had ever seen. The next day they

  • had to catch the train to Yorkshire. When they walked through the station, Mary tried

  • to keep as far away from her as possible. She did not want anyone to think that she

  • was Mrs. Medlock's daughter. Once they were settled on the train, Mrs.

  • Medlock said, "Do you know anything about your uncle?"

  • "No," Mary replied. "Well," said Mrs. Medlock. "I suppose you

  • should be told something to prepare yourself. You are going to a strange place."

  • Mary said nothing. She didn't care what this awful woman had to say about her uncle's house.

  • "The house is six hundred years old," said Mrs. Medlock. "It's on the edge of the moor,

  • and there are nearly a hundred rooms, though most of them are closed up and locked."

  • Mary began to listen. It sounded so different from India, and anything new interested her.

  • But she did not want to look interested. "Mr. Craven has a crooked back," Mrs. Medlock

  • went on. "He was a sour young man, and did nothing good with his money and his big house

  • until he married." Now Mary was really interested. She'd never

  • thought of a hunchback as married. "His wife was a sweet, pretty thing, and he

  • would have done anything for her. People said she married him for his money, but she didn't.

  • And when she died . . ." "She died?" Mary exclaimed. She remembered

  • a fairy tale about a poor hunchback and a beautiful princess. Suddenly she felt sorry

  • for Mr. Craven. "Yes, she died," said Mrs. Medlock. "And that

  • made him even stranger. He cares about nobody. He won't see people. "Most of the time he

  • travels, but when he's at Misselthwaite Manor, he shuts himself up in the west wing. He won't

  • let anybody near him but his old servant, Pitcher."

  • Mrs. Medlock was right. Mary was going to a strange place indeed.

Mary did not miss her mother at all. After all she had not really known her mother. So

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