1 She had found out a great deal this morning.
2 Mary thought his black dewdrop eyes gazed at her with great curiosity.
3 Mary Lennox knew they were roses because she had seen a great many roses in India.
4 He lives in a great, big, desolate old house in the country and no one goes near him.
5 There is no doubt that the fresh, strong, pure air from the moor had a great deal to do with it.
6 I'll tell you a great deal more before your next day out," she said, "so that you will have more to talk about.
7 It was plain that there was not a great deal of strength in Mistress Mary's arms and legs when she first began to skip.
8 When she had passed through the shrubbery gate she found herself in great gardens, with wide lawns and winding walks with clipped borders.
9 The entrance door was a huge one made of massive, curiously shaped panels of oak studded with big iron nails and bound with great iron bars.
10 Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah's stories, and she always said that what happened almost at that moment was Magic.
11 The road went up and down, and several times the carriage passed over a little bridge beneath which water rushed very fast with a great deal of noise.
12 Out of a deep window she could see a great climbing stretch of land which seemed to have no trees on it, and to look rather like an endless, dull, purplish sea.
13 Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.
14 The carriage lamps shed a yellow light on a rough-looking road which seemed to be cut through bushes and low-growing things which ended in the great expanse of dark apparently spread out before and around them.
15 She ate a great deal and afterward fell asleep herself, and Mary sat and stared at her and watched her fine bonnet slip on one side until she herself fell asleep once more in the corner of the carriage, lulled by the splashing of the rain against the windows.
16 She was very young, and used to a crowded cottage full of brothers and sisters, and she found it dull in the great servants' hall downstairs where the footman and upper-housemaids made fun of her Yorkshire speech and looked upon her as a common little thing, and sat and whispered among themselves.
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.
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