 No. I stay in this room because I don't want to be moved out of it. It tires me too much." "Does your father come and see you?" Mary ventured. " Sometimes. Generally when I am asleep. He doesn't want to see me." "Why?" Mary could not help asking again....  The Secret Garden - Page 159by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1911 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1911 - 978 pages
...like him." "Oh, what a queer house this is!" Mary said. "Wrhat a queer house! Everything is a kind of secret. Rooms are locked up and gardens are locked...a garden she used to like," Mary stammered. "Have vou been here always?" "Nearly always. Sometimes I have been taken to places at the seaside, but I... | |
 | Anna May Irwin Lütkenhaus - Readers - 1917 - 230 pages
...see you? COLIN. Sometimes. Generally when I am asleep. He doesn't want to see me. MARY. Why ? COLIN. My mother died when I was born and it makes him wretched to look at me. He thinks I don't know, but I 've heard people talking. He almost hates me. MARY. He hates the garden, because she died. COLIN.... | |
 | Anna May Irwin Lütkenhaus - Readers - 1917 - 228 pages
...see you? COLIN. Sometimes. Generally when I am asleep. He doesn't want to see me. MARY. Why? COLIN. My mother died when I was born and it makes him wretched to look at me. He thinks I don 't know, but I 've heard people talking. He almost hates me. MARY. He hates the garden, because... | |
 | Pam Sterling - Drama - 1991 - 92 pages
...may be a hunchback. My father hates to think I may be like him. He hates to see me. MARY. Why? COLIN. My mother died when I was born and it makes him wretched to look at me. MARY (to herself). He hates the garden because she died. COLIN. What garden? MARY. Oh — just a garden... | |
 | Carl Alette - Musicals - 1993 - 68 pages
...Generally when I'm asleep. He doesn't want to see me. MARY. Why not? COLIN. My mother died when I was bom, and it makes him wretched to look at me. He thinks...but I've heard people talking. He almost hates me. MARY. He hates the garden because she died in iu COLIN. What garden? MARY. [Does not want to reveal... | |
 | Sharon Burgett - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1997 - 108 pages
...Lennox. Mr. Craven is my uncle. COLIN. He is my father. But he doesn't come to see me. MARY. Why? COLIN. My mother died when I was born, and it makes him wretched to look at me. He almost hates me. MARY (to herself). He hates the garden, because she died. COLIN. What garden? MARY.... | |
 | Margaret Eileen Meredith - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 164 pages
...Archibald Craven, master of Misselthwaite Manor. Colin seldom sees his father. He explains to Mary: My mother died when I was born and it makes him wretched...thinks I don't know, but I've heard people talking. He tells Mary that if he lives he will become a hunchback like his father. However, he asserts, "I shan't... | |
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