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Title: The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator: MB Kork
Release Date: December 26, 2005 [EBook #17396]
Language: English
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[Illustration: “IT SEEMED SCARCELY BEARABLE
TO LEAVE SUCH
DELIGHTFULNESS”—Page 231]
THE
SECRET GARDEN
BY
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Author of
“The Shuttle,” “The Making
of a Marchioness,” “The Methods
of Lady
Walderhurst,” “That Lass o’
Lowries,” “Through One Administration,”
“Little Lord Fauntleroy” “A
Lady of Quality,” etc.
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1911, by
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Copyright, 1910, 1911, by
THE PHILLIPS PUBLISHING CO.
All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian.
August, 1911.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT 1
II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY 10
III ACROSS THE MOOR 23
IV MARTHA 30
V THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR 55
VI “THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING—­THERE WAS!” 65
VII THE KEY OF THE GARDEN 75
VIII THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY 85
IX THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED IN 97
X DICKON 111
XI THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH 128
XII “MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?” 140
XIII “I AM COLIN” 153
XIV A YOUNG RAJAH 172
XV NEST BUILDING 189
XVI “I WON’T!” SAID MARY 207
XVII A TANTRUM 218
XVIII “THA’ MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME” 229
XIX “IT HAS COME!” 239
XX “I SHALL LIVE FOREVER—­AND EVER—­AND EVER!” 255
XXI BEN WEATHERSTAFF 268
XXII WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN 284
XXIII MAGIC 292
XXIV “LET THEM LAUGH” 310
XXV THE CURTAIN 328
XXVI “IT’S MOTHER!” 339
XXVII IN THE GARDEN 353
THE SECRET GARDEN
CHAPTER I