The Secret Garden
Burnett
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Burnett · 27 chapters
Quotes from this book
She was grinding her teeth and saying this over and over again when she heard her mother come out on the veranda with someone.
“Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs!” she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.
Chapters
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- CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFTSample
- CHAPTER II. MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY
- CHAPTER III. ACROSS THE MOOR
- CHAPTER IV. MARTHA
- CHAPTER V. THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR
- CHAPTER VI. “THERE WAS SOMEONE CRYING—THERE WAS!”
- CHAPTER VII. THE KEY TO THE GARDEN
- CHAPTER VIII. THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY
- CHAPTER IX. THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANYONE EVER LIVED IN
- CHAPTER X. DICKON
- CHAPTER XI. THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH
- CHAPTER XII. “MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?”
- CHAPTER XIII. “I AM COLIN”
- CHAPTER XIV. A YOUNG RAJAH
- CHAPTER XV. NEST BUILDING
- CHAPTER XVI. “I WON’T!” SAID MARY
- CHAPTER XVII. A TANTRUM
- CHAPTER XVIII. “THA’ MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME”
- CHAPTER XIX. “IT HAS COME!”
- CHAPTER XX. “I SHALL LIVE FOREVER—AND EVER—AND EVER!”
- CHAPTER XXI. BEN WEATHERSTAFF
- CHAPTER XXII. WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN
- CHAPTER XXIII. MAGIC
- CHAPTER XXIV. “LET THEM LAUGH”
- CHAPTER XXV. THE CURTAIN
- CHAPTER XXVI. “IT’S MOTHER!”
- CHAPTER XXVII. IN THE GARDEN