Цитаты из книги «The Secret Garden»

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells,

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss her very much when she was gone.

The Ayah had been taken ill in the night, and it was because she had just died that the servants had wailed in the huts.

servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah. “Why did you come?” she said to the strange woman. “I will not let you stay. Send my Ayah to me.” The woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only more frightened and repeated that it was not possible for the Ayah to come to Missie Sahib.