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Also for download: A Chance to Grow (formerly Those Qualities Upon Which Friendship Lives), a sequel to The Secret Garden by Mena in the Garden (PDF format) - in progress, seventeen chapters (40,212 words) completed.

Summary: Mary returns to Misselthwaite Manor from boarding school in London more of a lady than ever and Dickon sees her in a new light -- the problem is, so does Colin.

Excerpt:

Mary Lennox's return to Misselthwaite Manor was now imminent. All of the arrangements had been made and the occupants of the house awaited her arrival with bated breath. Colin Craven, Mary's first cousin, and Dickon Sowerby, Mary's close friend, wandered about the grounds, peering out to the horizon for a glimpse of her carriage. Colin threatened to mount his horse and ride out along the road while Dickon nodded silently, hanging back a bit and kicking at the earth with the toe of his shoe.

"She should be here already!" cried Colin, a whiny tinge in his voice. He'd always been an impatient boy and now he was an equally impatient young man. Once thought to be lame, Colin had been walking for eight years now and was quite a horseman to boot. He'd grown to a lanky six feet plus one inch and his once pallid skin now glowed robustly in the crisp morning air.

Dickon knew to remain silent when Colin was cranky, which was often. He didn't mind it at all, as his personality was more suited to quiet and tranquility, the essence of which he exuded in great quantities but that had little effect on Colin. Dickon had also reached his full height of six feet and the baby fat he used to carry had melted into muscle. Working in the Manor gardens with Ben Weatherstaff and tending to his animals on the moors had given him strength and resilience. He was also infinitely more able to stand a wait than Colin. Where Colin had taken to grabbing flower heads and picking them apart with gusto, Dickon simply leaned against a tree and breathed in the scent of the newly crushed petals.

Read The Secret Garden on this site:

1. There is No One Left
2. Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
3. Across the Moor
4. Martha
5. A Cry in the Corridor
6. "There Was Some One Crying--There Was!"
7. The Key to the Garden
8. The Robin Who Showed the Way
9. THE Strangest House Any One Ever Lived In
10. Dickon
11. The Nest Of The Missel Thrush
12. "Might I Have A Bit Of Earth"
13. "I Am Colin"
14. A Young Rajah
15. Nest Building
16. "I Won't!" Said Mary
17. A Tantrum
18. "Tha' Munnot Waste No Time"
19. "It Has Come!"
20. "I Shall Live Forever--And Ever--AND Ever!"
21. Ben Weatherstaff
22. When The Sun Went Down
23. Magic
24. "Let Them Laugh"
25. The Curtain
26. "It's Mother!"
27. In The Garden

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