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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XV
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Mester Craven he'd buy anythin' as money could buy for th' poor lad but he'd like to forget as he's on earth.

For one thing, he's afraid he'll look at him some day and find he's growed hunchback." "Colin's so afraid of it himself that he won't sit up," said Mary.

"He says he's always thinking that if he should feel a lump coming he should go crazy and scream himself to death." "Eh! he oughtn't to lie there thinkin' things like that," said Dickon.
"No lad could get well as thought them sort o' things." The fox was lying on the grass close by him, looking up to ask for a pat now and then, and Dickon bent down and rubbed his neck softly and thought a few minutes in silence.

Presently he lifted his head and looked round the garden.
"When first we got in here," he said, "it seemed like everything was gray.

Look round now and tell me if tha' doesn't see a difference." Mary looked and caught her breath a little.
"Why!" she cried, "the gray wall is changing.


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