Chapter II

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Mary had liked to look at her mother from a
distance and she had thought her very pretty,
but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely
have been expected to love her or to miss her very
much when she was gone. She did not miss her
at all, in fact, and as she was a self-absorbed child
she gave her entire thought to herself, as she had
always done. If she had been older she would
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 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.

She knew that she was not going to stay at the
English clergyman's house where she was taken at
first. She did not want to stay. The English
clergyman was poor and he had five children nearly
all the same age and they wore shabby clothes

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