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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XIX
9/23

"When I find her in a cottage I know the chances are that I shall save my patient." Mrs.Medlock smiled.

She was fond of Susan Sowerby.
"She's got a way with her, has Susan," she went on quite volubly.

"I've been thinking all morning of one thing she said yesterday.

She says, 'Once when I was givin' th' children a bit of a preach after they'd been fightin' I ses to 'em all, "When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody.

No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round.


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