[The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Garden CHAPTER XIX 15/24
It makes you strong.
I am going to get up to the sofa for breakfast.
My cousin will have breakfast with me." The nurse went away, concealing a smile, to give the order for two breakfasts.
She found the servants' hall a more amusing place than the invalid's chamber and just now everybody wanted to hear the news from upstairs.
There was a great deal of joking about the unpopular young recluse who, as the cook said, "had found his master, and good for him." The servants' hall had been very tired of the tantrums, and the butler, who was a man with a family, had more than once expressed his opinion that the invalid would be all the better "for a good hiding." When Colin was on his sofa and the breakfast for two was put upon the table he made an announcement to the nurse in his most Rajah-like manner. "A boy, and a fox, and a crow, and two squirrels, and a new-born lamb, are coming to see me this morning.
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