The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson-Burnett

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Retold by Katarzyna Duda

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‘Mary Lennox’

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Mary Lennox was a skinny little 10-year old girl who was used to living in India all her life. She had thin yellow hair and an ugly yellow face with an angry look. She was always upset with something or somebody. Her father was always busy and her mother cared more for going to parties than for looking after her only child. So, when Mary was born, she was given to an Indian servant called Ayah, who was told to keep the child out of sight. Mary became a rude, spoilt and selfish child, used to always being obeyed by her servants. She never liked anybody, and so she had nobody to play with her because there was not a single person who liked her. One extremely hot morning she woke up, and, instead of seeing her Ayah she saw another servant. She asked: ‘Why have you come? I will not let you stay. Send my Ayah to me!’ The servant looked frightened but replied that her Ayah couldn’t come. This made Mary so angry that she started kicking and

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hitting the poor woman. But her Ayah did not come back. There was definitely something strange about that morning. Nothing seemed to be done the way it had always been done: no Ayah, no morning wash, no help with getting dressed, no one to play with. In fact, most of the servants seemed to be...