Bretton "not to be like her mama." Her devastated father is prescribed travel by his doctor to heal his frayed nerves and, it is said, his blameless but still guilty conscience. This child, Polly, the product of neglect and a broken home, is hoped by Mrs. Home and, having gotten a fever after a ball, died. Home had been a pretty and vain woman who had neglected Polly. Her name is Paulina Mary ( Polly) Home, and she is to stay with the Brettons while her widowed father makes arrangements abroad. When Lucy returns to her room, there is a new small, white crib in it.Ī little girl who is to be Lucy's roommate is a relative of Mrs. While Lucy is there on a visit, a letter arrives for Mrs. Lucy likes staying in the house of the Brettons well enough, but she does not seem to expect love or general favor from the family, just to be tolerated in a genteel way. This godmother, whose name is the same as the town in which she lives, has a teenaged son. Only later is it clear that this town of Bretton is actually in England. Lucy Snowe, we learn, is a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl whose godmother has a "handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton." Lucy Snowe visits this godmother twice a year, staying with her alone, without any of her own family. The reader meets a first-person narrator, but practically nothing about the person telling the story is imparted.
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