When orphaned Mary Lennox was sent off to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
Indeed, she was "Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary," through and through Yet there was something strange ab.
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.
She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression.
It was true, too.
When orphaned Mary Lennox was sent off to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen