The Secret Garden
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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source: garden.txt
subject: mary
subject: colin
subject: dickon
subject: tha
subject: garden
subject: etext
subject: honor
subject: lisa
subject: hart
subject: birthday
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subject: domain
subject: burnett
subject: frances
subject: hodgson
subject: secret
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: [pg/etext94/gardn10.txt] The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett March 13, 1994 [Etext #113] In Honor of Lisa Hart's 9th Birthday This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. THE SECRET GARDEN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Author of "The Shuttle," "The Making of a Marchioness," "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst," "The Lass o' Lowries," "Through One Administration," "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "A Lady of Quality," etc. CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY III ACROSS THE MOOR IV MARTHA V THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR VI "THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING--THERE WAS!" VII THE KEY TO THE GARDEN VIII THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY IX THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED IN X DICKON XI THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH XII "MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?" XIII "I AM COLIN" XIV A YOUNG RAJAH XV NEST BUILDING XVI "I WON'T!" SAID MARY XVII A TANTRUM XVIII "THA' MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME" XIX "IT HAS COME!" XX "I SHALL LIVE FOREVER--AND EVER--AND EVER!" XXI BEN WEATHERSTAFF XXII WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN XXIII MAGIC XIV "LET THEM LAUGH" XXV THE CURTAIN XXVI "IT'S MOTHER!" XXVII IN THE GARDEN THE SECRET GARDEN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. S…