文档介绍：THE WHITE PEOPLE1THE WHITE PEOPLEBY FRANCES HODGSON TTO LIONEL "The e nightly to the sky; The tidal wave untothe sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own awayfrom me."THE WHITE PEOPLE2CHAPTER IPerhaps the things which happened could only have happened to do not know. I never heard of things like them happening to any oneelse. But I am not sorry they did happen. I am in secret deeply andstrangely glad. I have heard other people say things--and they were notalways sad people, either--which made me feel that if they knew what Iknow it would seem to them as though some awesome, heavy load theyhad always dragged about with them had fallen from their shoulders. Tomost people everything is so uncertain that if they could only see or hearand know something clear they would drop upon their knees and givethanks. That was what I felt myself before I found out so strangely, and Iwas only a girl. That is why I intend to write this down as well as I will not be very well done, because I never was clever at all, and alwaysfound it difficult to say that perhaps these things could only have happened to me,because, as I look back over my life, I realize that it has always been arather curious one. Even when those who took care of me did not know Iwas thinking at all, I had begun to wonder if I were not different fromother children. That was, of course, largely because Muircarrie Castlewas in such a wild and remote part of Scotland that when my few relationsfelt they must pay me a visit as a mere matter of duty, their journey fromLondon, or their pleasant places in the south of England, seemed to themlike a pilgrimage to a sort of savage land; and when a conscientious onebrought a child to play with me, the little civilized creature was asfrightened of me as I was of it. My shyness and fear of its strangenessmade us both dumb. No doubt I seemed like a new breed of inoffensivelittle barbarian, knowing no tongue but its