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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett
 

Prefatory Materials

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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 &#8220;THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING&#8212;&#173;THERE WAS!&#8221;       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 &#8220;MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?&#8221;               140
XIII &#8220;I AM COLIN&#8221;                                 153
XIV A YOUNG RAJAH                                172
XV NEST BUILDING                                189
XVI &#8220;I WON&#8217;T!&#8221; SAID MARY                         207
XVII A TANTRUM                                    218
XVIII &#8220;THA&#8217; MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME&#8221;                  229
XIX &#8220;IT HAS COME!&#8221;                               239
XX &#8220;I SHALL LIVE FOREVER&#8212;&#173;AND EVER&#8212;&#173;AND EVER!&#8221;  255
XXI BEN WEATHERSTAFF                             268
XXII WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN                       284
XXIII MAGIC                                        292
XXIV &#8220;LET THEM LAUGH&#8221;                             310
XXV THE CURTAIN                                  328
XXVI &#8220;IT&#8217;S MOTHER!&#8221;                               339
XXVII IN THE GARDEN                                353

THE SECRET GARDEN

CHAPTER I

 

Prefatory Materials

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