It's Mother
The Secret Garden (version 2) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's Mother

B2Upper-intermediateDecember 26, 202317 min
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CHAPTER XXVI. ITS MOTHER Their belief in the magic was an abiding thing. After the morning's incantations, Collins sometimes gave them magic lectures.

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"'I like to do it,' he explained, "'because when I grow up and make great scientific discoveries, I shall be obliged to lecture about them, and so this is practice. I can only give short lectures now, because I am very young, and besides, Ben Weatherstaff would feel as if he were in church, and he would go to sleep.'

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"'The best thing about lecturing,' said Ben, "'is that a chap can get up and say all tea pleases, and no other chap can answer him back. I wouldn't be again lecturing a bit myself sometimes.' But when Colin held forth under his tree, old Ben fixed devouring eyes on him and kept

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