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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