The Secret Garden
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At first each day which passed by for Mary Lennox was exactly like the others.
Every morning she awoke in her tapestried room and found Martha kneeling
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breakfast
upon the hearth building her fire; every morning she ate her breafkfast in the
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nursery which had nothing amusing in it; and after each breakfast she gazed out
of the window across to the huge moor which seemed to spread out on all sides
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and climb up to the sky, and after she had stared for a while she realized that if
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she did not go out she would have to stay in and do nothing – and so she went
out. She did know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did
not know that when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and
down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger
by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor. She ran only to
make herself warm, and she hated the wind which rushed at her face and roared
and held her back as if it were some giant she could not see.
breaths
But the big breathes of rough fresh air blown over the heather filled her
thin
lungs with something which was good for her whole thing body and whipped
some red color into her cheeks and brightened her dull eyes when she did not
know anything about it.
But after a few days spent almost entirely out of doors, she wakened one
morning knowing what it was to be hungry, and when she sat down to her
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breakfast she did not glance disdainfully at her porridge and push it away, but
but took up her spoon and began to eat it and went on eating it until her bowl
was empty.
“Tha’ got on well enough with that this mornin’, didn’t tha’?” said Martha.
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“It tastes nice today” said Mary, feeling a little surprised herself.
“It’s th’ air of th’ moor that’s givin’ thee stomach for tha’ victuals,”
answered Martha. “It’s lucky for thee that tha’s got victuals as well as appetite.
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There’s been twelve in our cottage as had th’ stomach an’ nothin’ to put in it. you
go on playin’ you out o’ doors every day an’ you’ll get some flesh on your bones
an’ you won’t be so yeller.”
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“I don’t play,” said Mary, “I have nothing to play with.”
“Nothin’ to play with!” exclaimed Martha. “Our children plays with sticks
and stones. They just runs about an’ shouts an’ looks at things.”
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Mary did not shot, but she looked at things. There was nothing else to do.
She walked round and round the gardens and wandered about the paths in the
park. Sometimes she looked for Ben Weatherstaff, but though several times she
saw him at work, he was too busy to look at her or was too surly. Once when she
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was walking toward him he picked up his spade and turned away as if he did it
on purpose.