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1  It's like a native dialect in India.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  The native servants were always saying it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The native servants she had been used to in India were not in the least like this.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  He can charm foxes and squirrels and birds just as the natives in India charm snakes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  And she tried to ask it in Yorkshire because that was his language, and in India a native was always pleased if you knew his speech.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  In India the natives spoke different dialects which only a few people understood, so she was not surprised when Martha used words she did not know.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Nothing was done in its regular order and several of the native servants seemed missing, while those whom Mary saw slunk or hurried about with ashy and scared faces.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  The little girl did not offer to help her, because in India native servants always picked up or carried things and it seemed quite proper that other people should wait on one.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
9  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.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
10  He did not know that when she first saw him she spoke to him as she would have spoken to a native, and had not known that a cross, sturdy old Yorkshire man was not accustomed to salaam to his masters, and be merely commanded by them to do things.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
11  "No, I will not have the nurse," so magnificently that Mary could not help remembering how the young native Prince had looked with his diamonds and emeralds and pearls stuck all over him and the great rubies on the small dark hand he had waved to command his servants to approach with salaams and receive his orders.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night, and that the few native servants who had not died also had left the house as quickly as they could get out of it, none of them even remembering that there was a Missie Sahib.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
13  She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I