The Secret Garden

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Фрэнсис Элиза Бёрнетт. The Secret Garden

Chapter I. There is no one left

Chapter II. Mistress Mary quite contrary

Chapter III. Across the moor

Chapter IV. Martha

Chapter V. The cry in the corridor

Chapter VI “There was someone crying – There was!”

Chapter VII. The key to the garden

Chapter VIII. The Robin who showed the way

Chapter IX. The strangest house anyone ever lived in

Chapter X. Dickon

Chapter XI. The nest of the Missel Thrush

Chapter XII “Might I have a bit of earth?”

Chapter XIII “I am Colin”

Chapter XIV. A young Rajah

Chapter XV. Nest building

Chapter XVI “I won’t!” said Mary

Chapter XVII. A tantrum

Chapter XVIII “Tha’ munnot waste no time”

Chapter XIX “It has come!”

Chapter XX “I shall live forever – and ever – and ever!”

Chapter XXI. Ben Weatherstaff

Chapter XXII. When the sun went down

Chapter XXIII. Magic

Chapter XXIV “Let them laugh”

Chapter XXV. The curtain

Chapter XXVI “It’s mother!”

Chapter XXVII. In the garden

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One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah.

“Why did you come?” she said to the strange woman. “I will not let you stay. Send my Ayah to me.”

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“Why?” asked Mary in spite of herself. Here was another locked door added to the hundred in the strange house.

“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.”

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