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　　When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. 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. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. 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 young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.

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当玛丽·劳诺克斯被送到米瑟斯威特庄园，和她舅舅一起生活的时候，每个人都说她是他们见过的长相最令人不舒服孩子。这也对，玛丽有着消瘦的脸蛋、单薄的身体、薄薄的头发和一副不高兴的表情。她的头发是黄色的，由于出生在印度并且总是因为这样或那样的原因而生病，她的脸蛋也显得那么蜡黄。玛丽的父亲在英国政府中有份工作，经常很忙也时不时地生病，她的母亲是个大美人，只关心各种聚会以及和一些男人们寻欢作乐。玛丽的母亲从来没有想过要一个小女孩，当玛丽出生后，她就把她交给奶妈来照顾，奶妈知道，如果她想让女主人高兴的话，她就必须尽可能地把这个孩子带离她的视线。所以，当玛丽还是个多病、爱哭、难看的小婴孩时，她就被带离大人们的视线。当玛丽长成为一个多病、爱哭、蹒跚学步的小孩时，她还是被带离大人们的视线。除了奶妈和其他印度仆人的黑脸，玛丽从没记得见过任何熟悉的东西。因为女主人会被她的哭声打扰到而生气，所以奶妈和仆人们非常顺从玛丽，让她为所欲为。当玛丽长到6岁时，她像一头小猪那样乖戾而自私。来教她阅读和书写的年轻英语家庭女教师非常不喜欢玛丽，三个月后就放弃了这份工作，而后来试图教她的家庭教师也总是干不到第一位那么长的时间就离开了。所以如果不是玛丽自己真的想要读书的话，恐怕她连自己的名字也不会写。