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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XXVI
10/24

How can we know the exact names of everything?
Sing it again, Dickon.

Let us try, Mary.

I want to sing it, too.

It's my song.

How does it begin?
'Praise God from whom all blessings flow' ?" And they sang it again, and Mary and Colin lifted their voices as musically as they could and Dickon's swelled quite loud and beautiful--and at the second line Ben Weatherstaff raspingly cleared his throat and at the third line he joined in with such vigor that it seemed almost savage and when the "Amen" came to an end Mary observed that the very same thing had happened to him which had happened when he found out that Colin was not a cripple--his chin was twitching and he was staring and winking and his leathery old cheeks were wet.
"I never seed no sense in th' Doxology afore," he said hoarsely, "but I may change my mind i' time.


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