The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Grāmatas -  - 9798671355932 - 2020. gada 12. oktobris
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The Secret Garden

Book Excerpt: ...te Manor, she looked so stony and stubbornly uninterested that they did not know what to think about her. They tried to be kind to her, but she only turned her face away when Mrs. Crawford attempted to kiss her, and held herself stiffly when Mr. Crawford patted her shoulder."She is such a plain child," Mrs. Crawford said pityingly, afterward. "And her mother was such a pretty creature. She had a very pretty manner, too, and Mary has the most unattractive ways I ever saw in a child. The children call her 'Mistress Mary Quite Contrary, ' and though it's naughty of them, one can't help understanding it.""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. It is very sad, now the poor beautiful thing is gone, to remember that many people never even knew that she had a child at all.""I believe she scarcely ever looked at her," sighed Mrs. Crawford. "When her Ayah was dead there was no one to give a thought to the...

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Izlaists 2020. gada 12. oktobris
ISBN13 9798671355932
Lapas 190
Izmēri 152 × 229 × 11 mm   ·   285 g
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