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Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Chapter 1 There is no one left
Chapter 2 Mistress Mary quite contrary
Chapter 3 Across the moor
Chapter 4 Martha
Chapter 5 The Cry in the corridor
Chapter 6 "There was some one crying--There was!"
Chapter 7 The Key to the Garden
Chapter 8 The robin who showed the way
Chapter 9 The strangest house any one ever lived in
Chapter 10 Dickon
Chapter 11 The nest of the missel thrush
Chapter 12 "Might I have a bit of Earth?"
Chapter 13 "I am Colin"
Chapter 14 A young Rajah
Chapter 15 Nest building
Chapter 16 "I won't!" said Mary
Chapter 17 A tantrum
Chapter 18 "Tha' munnot waste of time"
Chapter 19 "It has come!"
Chapter 20 "I shall live forever--and ever--and ever!"
Chapter 21 Ben Weatherstaff
Chapter 22 When the sun went down
Chapter 23 Magic
Chapter 24 "Let them laugh"
Chapter 25 The curtain
Chapter 26 "It's Mother!"
Chapter 27 In the garden
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The Secret Garden
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"Mr. Craven had it shut when his wife died so sudden. He won't let no one go inside. It was her garden. He locked th' door an' dug a hole and buried th' key. There's Mrs. Medlock's bell ringing—I must run."
After she was gone Mary turned down the walk which led to the door in the shrubbery. She could not help thinking about the garden which no one had been into for ten years. She wondered what it would look like and whether there were any flowers still alive in it. When she had passed through the shrubbery gate she found herself in great gardens, with wide lawns and winding walks with clipped borders. There were trees, and flower-beds, and evergreens clipped into strange shapes, and a large pool with an old gray fountain in its midst. But the flower-beds were bare and wintry and the fountain was not playing. This was not the garden which was shut up. How could a garden be shut up? You could always walk into a garden.
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