title: The Secret Garden (First Edition)
author:  Frances Hodgson Burnett 
description: A beautiful and timeless tale of the enchantment worked by a long-forgotten garden on three children in Victorian England.
zlib_text: _**Before You Know Kindness**_
  
  Chris Bohjalian
  
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  . . . She Took A Long Breath And Looked Behind Her Up The Long Walk To See If
  Any One Was Coming. No One Was Coming. No one ever did come, it seemed, and
  she took another long breath, because she could not help it, and she held back
  the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly--
  slowly.
  
  Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her, and stood with her back
  against it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement, and
  wonder, and delight.
  
  She was standing inside the secret garden.
  
  FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT,
  
  The Secret Garden
  
  PROLOGUE:
  
  Cavitation
  
  The bullet--cylindriform as a rocket but tapering to a point almost sharp
  enough to prick skin with a casual touch--was two and a half inches long when
  it was in its cartridge in the rifle. The shank was made of copper, and the
  expansion chamber would cause it to double in diameter upon impact. The tip
  was designed to swell upon contact as we