The Secret Garden

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 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...