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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
shall get well! I shall get well!" he cried out. "Mary! Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live forever and ever and ever!
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
born lamb Dickon had found three days before lying by its dead mother among the gorse bushes on the moor. It was not the first motherless lamb he had found and he knew what to do with it. He had taken it to the cottage wrapped in his jacket and he had let it lie near the fire and had fed it with warm milk. It was a soft thing with a darling silly baby face and legs rather long for
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
because he felt so curiously comfortable. It was actually nice to be awake, and he turned over and stretched his limbs luxuriously. He felt as if tight strings which had held him had loosened themselves and let him go. He did not know that Dr. Craven would have said that his nerves had relaxed and rested themselves. Instead of lying and staring at the wall and wishing he had not awakened, his mind was full of the plans he and Mary had made yesterday, of pictures of the garden and of Dickon and his wild creatures. It was so nice to have things to think about. And he had not been awake more than ten minutes when he heard feet running along the corridor and Mary was at the door. The next minute she was in the room and had run across to his bed, bringing with her a waft of fresh air full of the scent of the morning. "You've been out! You've been out! There's that nice smell of leaves!" he cried. She had been running and her hair was loose and blown and she was bright with the air and pink-cheeked, though he could not see it. "It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
Fresh air won't tire me," said the young Rajah.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon-well just come up and see, sir. It's past crediting.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
think it has been left alone so long-that it has grown all into a lovely tangle. I think the roses have climbed and climbed and climbed until they hang from the branches and walls and creep over the ground-almost like a strange gray mist. Some of them have died but many-are alive and when the summer comes there will be curtains and fountains of roses. I think the ground is full of daffodils and snowdrops and lilies and iris working their way out of the dark. Now the spring has begun-perhaps-perhaps-" The soft drone of her voice was making him stiller and stiller and she saw it and went on. "Perhaps they are coming up through the grass-perhaps there are clusters of purple crocuses and gold ones-even now."
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess
and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ Little Lord Fauntleroy
Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts-just mere thoughts-are as powerful as electric batteries-as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess
who had lost her mother
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess
curled herself up in the window-seat, opened a book, and began to read.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger.
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