letters of thanks for the wreaths which had been sentsend.
CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sentsendto Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen .
He sentsendme to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old , where I resided three years , and applied myself close to my studies ; but the charge of maintaining me , although I had a very scanty allowance , being too great for a narrow fortune , I was boundbindapprentice to Mr. James Bates , an eminent surgeon in London , with whom I continued four years .
Why he was sentsend, is , however , of little moment to this story , for he never made an investigation , nor , in fact , did he ever reach his destination .
-- It plantedplanta thorn in a till then insensible heart , and sentsenda new kind of a knight-errant into the world .
Sergeant Grospierre had been sentsendto the guillotine for allowingallowa whole family of aristos to slipslipout of the North Gate under his very nose .
I leftleavethe dark figure standing , still as a carved stone , in the heavy shadow of the trees , and , spurringspurmy horse ( sentsendme from home , the year before , by my cousin Percy ) , was soon at my house , -- a poor and rude one , but pleasantly set upon a slope of green turf , and girt with maize and the broad leaves of the tobacco .
He plankedplankdown the usual editorial packet -- two or three rolls of proofs , a collection of newspapers , a bulky parcel of private correspondence sentsendon by the porter of Mrs Gildea 's London flat , some local letters and , finally , two square envelopes , with the remark , as he turnedturnaway on his round .