4 pug ARDEN FRANCES’ saeton BURNETT : = See 7: sat = oy >. : pon ee) —Chapter 1 The Lonely Palace Mary Lennox was bom in India from English parents. Her mother wits exteemely beautiful, She had many friends with whom she passed most of her time, Her father worked very ha so he was offen oul, fou. Thus Mary see her mother and ber father very f even didn't have W ramce bel and kindness. 1g Hen and make her hus ton neither her sadness m py. Bur they her crying. Mary was a thin spoiled girl. | servants always did what shit not at all a nice girl. herself. Consequently, | Mary did mot love any 4 One morming, when Mary was nine years all, a new servant came to wake her, Mary wat angry because she wanted the servant whom she knew, nok a mew one. a hes Wan ime bot aun one. Me [gia Lys publ OY) Woe thas ih gil cals Bengt gh Seb ABS aid bile 385 bb Laial| pled ead Ge shes eagle sole J ay ys Uae de nett GF gy cul eae cle wal well UeV gle Gut SURLY iuae date aut Eat LL ly liad gl Lat Awhy did you come here? Who called you!” she shouted nervously. “I don't want you to stay with me. [ want my own SCrvanent” The woman seemed frightened, and Mary's own servant did not come. IC was a strange, un usual morning, for no one told her what to dhe. So she went out to the garden to play. She picked some Mowers and made a small lovely garden of her own, She wis angry because she did not know why she was lonely, She felt that something must be wrong. After some time, Mary heard her mother talk- ing. She understood whit was wrong. Many people in the house wee ill, and some hil died. No one thought abet Mary, They were thinking about their illness and about the people who were dying, She became sad, She became frightened, too. She went to ber room and cried til) she fell asleep. She slept for a long time. When she woke up. she noticed that everything, was very quiet al home. Mary thought, ‘Perhaps the sickness has gone. Perhaps everyone nas got better, Surely, some one will come and tke care cof me’. She waited and waited, but no onc came to sec her, and the house remained very quiet. A Yo Pie | ce She Sante tall a , EL beste Ea et eh bus CHE oly : — nee Aaltbl gs gle duals. ot bs eaitle atl ou ae Goyette oa ey belt ne ty jl a = chs . ee - we el dd ee lise aR bi PY ce Mga the ge a : . "as wr Bekee Ainley eet eB le ee the ey tae, . ye aplher Lealty Balke eee dtl igls ms new isda he ga dy Se ae feisee oo ee oan Co cell les ppt at oy Su ae wom wee Soak Lal Gu oes wt US oY Sa Gey Shh by cut ipl j lp i te sigiln a 8 oF lai bey vod dy ken eae ty gy le del Gh of ay Aid Ce) He bel ow We SS codes cs Ya