1 She never dared even to ask a question.
2 Certainly they had never told her things.
3 She had never known it to be so silent before.
4 She was not an affectionate child and had never cared much for any one.
5 She had never seen a room at all like it and thought it curious and gloomy.
6 I might have been let to be scullerymaid but I'd never have been let upstairs.
7 "A more marred-looking young one I never saw in my life," Mrs. Medlock thought.
8 She had never thought of the hunchback's being married and she was a trifle surprised.
9 If there was a grand Missus at Misselthwaite I should never have been even one of th under house-maids.
10 So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.
11 She frowned because she remembered that her father and mother had never talked to her about anything in particular.
12 She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.
13 Other children seemed to belong to their fathers and mothers, but she had never seemed to really be anyone's little girl.
14 It was in this way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite so contrary in all her life.
15 She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; and at last she got tired of watching her and began to talk in a brisk, hard voice.
16 Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land.
17 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.
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