{"product_id":"2940012399663","title":"THE SECRET GARDEN","description":"CHAPTER                                           PAGE\u003cbr\u003e      I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT                           1\u003cbr\u003e     II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY                  10\u003cbr\u003e    III ACROSS THE MOOR                               23\u003cbr\u003e     IV MARTHA                                        30\u003cbr\u003e      V THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR                       55\u003cbr\u003e     VI \"THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING--THERE WAS!\"       65\u003cbr\u003e    VII THE KEY OF THE GARDEN                         75\u003cbr\u003e   VIII THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY                  85\u003cbr\u003e     IX THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED IN     97\u003cbr\u003e      X DICKON                                       111\u003cbr\u003e     XI THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH                128\u003cbr\u003e    XII \"MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?\"               140\u003cbr\u003e   XIII \"I AM COLIN\"                                 153\u003cbr\u003e    XIV A YOUNG RAJAH                                172\u003cbr\u003e     XV NEST BUILDING                                189\u003cbr\u003e    XVI \"I WON'T!\" SAID MARY                         207\u003cbr\u003e   XVII A TANTRUM                                    218\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII \"THA' MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME\"                  229\u003cbr\u003e    XIX \"IT HAS COME!\"                               239\u003cbr\u003e     XX \"I SHALL LIVE FOREVER--AND EVER--AND EVER!\"  255\u003cbr\u003e    XXI BEN WEATHERSTAFF                             268\u003cbr\u003e   XXII WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN                       284\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII MAGIC                                        292\u003cbr\u003e   XXIV \"LET THEM LAUGH\"                             310\u003cbr\u003e    XXV THE CURTAIN                                  328\u003cbr\u003e   XXVI \"IT'S MOTHER!\"                               339\u003cbr\u003e  XXVII IN THE GARDEN                                353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECRET GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHERE IS NO ONE LEFT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle\u003cbr\u003eeverybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It\u003cbr\u003ewas true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin\u003cbr\u003elight hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was\u003cbr\u003eyellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one\u003cbr\u003eway or another. Her father had held a position under the English\u003cbr\u003eGovernment and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had\u003cbr\u003ebeen a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself\u003cbr\u003ewith gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary\u003cbr\u003ewas born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the\u003cbr\u003echild out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly,\u003cbr\u003efretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she\u003cbr\u003ebecame a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way\u003cbr\u003ealso. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces\u003cbr\u003eof her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her\u003cbr\u003eand gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be\u003cbr\u003eangry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years\u003cbr\u003eold she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The\u003cbr\u003eyoung English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked\u003cbr\u003eher so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other\u003cbr\u003egovernesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter\u003cbr\u003etime than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to\u003cbr\u003eknow how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she\u003cbr\u003eawakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw\u003cbr\u003ethat the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why did you come?\" she said to the strange woman. \"I will not let you\u003cbr\u003estay. Send my Ayah to me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could\u003cbr\u003enot come and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat and kicked\u003cbr\u003eher, she looked only more frightened and repeated that it was not\u003cbr\u003epossible for the Ayah to come to Missie Sahib.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was something mysterious in the air that morning. Nothing was done\u003cbr\u003ein its regular order and several of the native servants seemed missing,\u003cbr\u003ewhile those whom Mary saw slunk or hurried about with ashy and scared\u003cbr\u003efaces. But no one would tell her anything and her Ayah did not come. She\u003cbr\u003ewas actually left alone as the morning went on, and at last she wandered\u003cbr\u003eout into the garden and began to play by herself under a tree near the\u003cbr\u003everanda. She pretended that she was making a flower-bed, and she stuck\u003cbr\u003ebig scarlet hibiscus blossoms into little heaps of earth, all the time\u003cbr\u003egrowing more and more angry and muttering to herself the things she\u003cbr\u003ewould say and the names she would call Saidie when she returned.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078831554800,"sku":"2940012399663","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012399663_p0.jpg?v=1763568190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012399663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}