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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XXIII
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You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic.

If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things." "I once heard an officer in India tell my mother that there were fakirs who said words over and over thousands of times," said Mary.
"I've heard Jem Fettleworth's wife say th' same thing over thousands o' times--callin' Jem a drunken brute," said Ben Weatherstaff dryly.
"Summat allus come o' that, sure enough.

He gave her a good hidin' an' went to th' Blue Lion an' got as drunk as a lord." Colin drew his brows together and thought a few minutes.

Then he cheered up.
"Well," he said, "you see something did come of it.

She used the wrong Magic until she made him beat her.


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