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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER X
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But, in fact, he did not object to her as strongly as he had at first.
Perhaps he was secretly rather flattered by her evident desire for his elderly company.

Then, also, she was more civil than she had been.

He did not know that when she first saw him she spoke to him as she would have spoken to a native, and had not known that a cross, sturdy old Yorkshire man was not accustomed to salaam to his masters, and be merely commanded by them to do things.
"Tha'rt like th' robin," he said to her one morning when he lifted his head and saw her standing by him.

"I never knows when I shall see thee or which side tha'll come from." "He's friends with me now," said Mary.
"That's like him," snapped Ben Weatherstaff.

"Makin' up to th' women folk just for vanity an' flightiness.


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