An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories

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Molesworth Mrs.. An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories

Chapter One. Madam Wren

Chapter Two. Tapping

Chapter Three. The Caretaker

Chapter Four. The Story of the Three Wishes

Chapter Five. The Story of the Three Wishes – continued

Chapter Six. The Story of the Three Wishes – concluded

Chapter Seven. The Summer Princess

Chapter Eight. The Summer Princess – continued

Chapter Nine. The Christmas Surprise

Chapter Ten. The Magic Rose

Chapter Eleven. The Magic Rose – continued

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The children were not very fortunate in their nurse. Perhaps this helped to make them feel lonely and dull sometimes, when there scarcely seemed real reason for their being so. She was a good woman, and meant to be kind, and their mother trusted her completely. But she was getting old, and was rather tired of children. She had had such a lot to bring up – the four big brothers and sisters of Rafe and Alix, and before them a large family of their cousins. And I don’t think she was really very fond of children, though she was devoted to tiny babies. She didn’t in the least understand children’s fancifulnesses or many of their little ways, and was far too fond of saying, “Stuff and nonsense, Master Rafe,” or “Miss Alix,” as the case might be.

The walk this afternoon would not have been any livelier than usual, so far as nurse was concerned, but the children were so brimful of their new ideas that they felt quite bright and happy, and after a while even nurse was won over to enter into their talk, or at least to answer their questions pretty cheerfully.

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There was no difficulty in getting into the grounds, for though the gate on its rusty hinges would have been far too heavy for the children to move, there was a space between it and the posts where the wood had rotted away, through which it was easy for them to creep. First came Rafe, then the basket, next Alix, and finally the big parasol.

It was a good while since they had been in the Ladywood garden, and when they had got on to their feet again, they stood still for a minute or two looking round them. It was a curious-looking place certainly; the very beauty of it had something strange and dream-like about it.

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