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01. The red room

Part One: A Child at Gateshead

Chapter One: The red room

We could not go for a walk that afternoon.

There was such a freezing cold wind, and such heavy rain, that we all stayed indoors. I was glad of it.

I never liked long walks, especially in winter.

I used to hate coming home when it was almost dark, with ice-cold fingers and toes, feeling miserable because Bessie, the nursemaid, was always scolding me.

All the time I knew I was different from my cousins, Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed.

They were taller and stronger than me, and they were loved.

These three usually spent their time crying and quarrelling, but today they were sitting quietly around their mother in the sitting-room.

I wanted to join the family circle, but Mrs Reed, my aunt, refused Bessie had complained about me.

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