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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 LordFauntleroy,” “A Lady of Quality,” etc.
Contents
CHAPTER I.
THERE IS NO ONE LEFT
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncleeverybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It wastrue, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hairand a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because shehad been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Herfather had held a position under the English Government and had always beenbusy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only togo to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little