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1  "Tha's beginnin to do Misselthwaite credit," he said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  On this occasion he was away from Misselthwaite Manor until afternoon.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  The woman was his housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor, and her name was Mrs. Medlock.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He is quite poor and if I die he will have all Misselthwaite when my father is dead.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  What you're to be kept at Misselthwaite Manor for I don't know, unless because it's the easiest way.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  If there was a grand Missus at Misselthwaite I should never have been even one of th under house-maids.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
9  It was in this way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite so contrary in all her life.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
11  Most of the time he goes away, and when he is at Misselthwaite he shuts himself up in the West Wing and won't let any one but Pitcher see him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  This gave her so much to think of that she began to be quite interested and feel that she was not sorry that she had come to Misselthwaite Manor.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  The sun was shining inside the four walls and the high arch of blue sky over this particular piece of Misselthwaite seemed even more brilliant and soft than it was over the moor.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  The high, deep, blue sky arched over Misselthwaite as well as over the moor, and she kept lifting her face and looking up into it, trying to imagine what it would be like to lie down on one of the little snow-white clouds and float about.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  He wanted to know how long she had been at Misselthwaite; he wanted to know which corridor her room was on; he wanted to know what she had been doing; if she disliked the moor as he disliked it; where she had lived before she came to Yorkshire.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
16  She had not wanted to go to London just when her sister Maria's daughter was going to be married, but she had a comfortable, well paid place as housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor and the only way in which she could keep it was to do at once what Mr. Archibald Craven told her to do.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
17  But she thought over it a great deal afterward; and when Mrs. Crawford told her that night that she was going to sail away to England in a few days and go to her uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven, who lived at Misselthwaite Manor, she looked so stony and stubbornly uninterested that they did not know what to think about her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
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