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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XX
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He was sitting in an armchair and a young lamb was standing by him shaking its tail in feeding-lamb fashion as Dickon knelt giving it milk from its bottle.

A squirrel was perched on Dickon's bent back attentively nibbling a nut.
The little girl from India was sitting on a big footstool looking on.
"Here is Mr.Roach, Master Colin," said Mrs.Medlock.
The young Rajah turned and looked his servitor over--at least that was what the head gardener felt happened.
"Oh, you are Roach, are you ?" he said.

"I sent for you to give you some very important orders." "Very good, sir," answered Roach, wondering if he was to receive instructions to fell all the oaks in the park or to transform the orchards into water-gardens.
"I am going out in my chair this afternoon," said Colin.

"If the fresh air agrees with me I may go out every day.

When I go, none of the gardeners are to be anywhere near the Long Walk by the garden walls.
No one is to be there.


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