![]() ![]() ![]() Craven’s serious face relaxed into a relieved smile. She felt somehow that everybody who knew the moor must know Dickon. “He must be a strong boy and a steady boy,” he said. If this tiresome hysterical boy should chance to get well he himself would lose all chance of inheriting Misselthwaite but he was not an unscrupulous man, though he was a weak one, and he did not intend to let him run into actual danger. A very strong boy I know will push my carriage.”ĭr. “No, I will not have the nurse,” so magnificently that Mary could not help remembering how the young native Prince had looked with his diamonds and emeralds and pearls stuck all over him and the great rubies on the small dark hand he had waved to command his servants to approach with salaams and receive his orders. “And the nurse, of course?” suggested Dr. ![]() “I don’t when I am by myself,” replied the Rajah “but my cousin is going out with me.” “I thought you did not like fresh air,” he said. “Fresh air won’t tire me,” said the young Rajah.Īs there had been occasions when this same young gentleman had shrieked aloud with rage and had insisted that fresh air would give him cold and kill him, it is not to be wondered at that his doctor felt somewhat startled. “It must be a very fine day,” he said, “and you must be very careful not to tire yourself.” ![]() Craven sat down by him and felt his pulse and looked at him curiously. “I’m going out in my chair in a day or two if it is fine. “I’m better now-much better,” Colin answered, rather like a Rajah. “I am sorry to hear you were ill last night, my boy,” Dr. Mary became quite still and Colin looked fretful. “Dickon says they’re larkspurs made big and grand,” cried Mistress Mary. “Those long spires of blue ones-we’ll have a lot of those,” Colin was announcing. Colin was on his sofa in his dressing-gown and he was sitting up quite straight looking at a picture in one of the garden books and talking to the plain child who at that moment could scarcely be called plain at all because her face was so glowing with enjoyment. Medlock opened the door he heard laughing and chattering. Craven beheld when he entered his patient’s room was indeed rather astonishing to him. 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. The Lord knows she’s nothing to look at and you scarcely ever hear her speak, but she did what none of us dare do. That plain sour-faced child that’s almost as bad as himself has just bewitched him. Medlock, “you’ll scarcely believe your eyes when you see him. The boy is half insane with hysteria and self-indulgence.” “He will break a blood-vessel in one of those fits some day. Medlock rather irritably when he arrived. On this occasion he was away from Misselthwaite Manor until afternoon. Craven dreaded and detested the difficulties of these visits. He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always found, when he arrived, a white shaken boy lying on his bed, sulky and still so hysterical that he was ready to break into fresh sobbing at the least word. Craven had been sent for the morning after Colin had had his tantrum. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! On the other hand, it could change your mind about it! This is a must-read for people who are interested about nature, but other readers would enjoy it too.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. This is definitely a book for either gender! I would not recommend this book for people who do not care for nature, as there is a lot of description about flowers and trees and so on. It is not a fancy book for girls, despite the title. This book is a classic that your parents have probably read, but don't let that put you off! It is an intriguing read, despite the few slow bits in the book. The best scene was probably when Mary first finds the garden that was hidden for a decade, as the description left such a clear image in my mind. I really liked the book, as it was fascinating to see Mary change from a horrible, spoiled brat to a sweet-hearted girl. The book is about how the discovery of a secret garden transforms the character of Mary and another character in the book. At the start of the book, she lives in India, but is forced to leave for her uncle's mansion in England in order to escape a devastating outbreak of cholera. The Secret Garden is about a particularly arrogant and unpleasant girl called Mary Lennox. ![]()
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