[The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Garden CHAPTER III 3/8
Th' carriage is waitin' outside for thee." A brougham stood on the road before the little outside platform.
Mary saw that it was a smart carriage and that it was a smart footman who helped her in.
His long waterproof coat and the waterproof covering of his hat were shining and dripping with rain as everything was, the burly station-master included. When he shut the door, mounted the box with the coachman, and they drove off, the little girl found herself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner, but she was not inclined to go to sleep again.
She sat and looked out of the window, curious to see something of the road over which she was being driven to the queer place Mrs.Medlock had spoken of.
She was not at all a timid child and she was not exactly frightened, but she felt that there was no knowing what might happen in a house with a hundred rooms nearly all shut up--a house standing on the edge of a moor. "What is a moor ?" she said suddenly to Mrs.Medlock. "Look out of the window in about ten minutes and you'll see," the woman answered.
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