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<v Speaker 1>Hi, I'm Janie and welcome back to sleep Magic. Tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, get yourself comfortable. Take a nice slow braath and

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<v Speaker 1>let tonight's sleep magic help you drift into a d

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<v Speaker 3>Allow your eyes to close easily and gently, and just

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<v Speaker 3>let yourself come back to your body and bring your

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<v Speaker 3>awareness to your breathing for a moment. By bringing your

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<v Speaker 3>awareness to the breath, you bring your awareness back to

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<v Speaker 3>your body. You pull it in from wherever it's been

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<v Speaker 3>wandering all day, and it feels nice to come home

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<v Speaker 3>to your body. It feels nice to come home to

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<v Speaker 3>your breath. Good. So let's bring the awareness now up

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<v Speaker 3>into your eyelids and imagine that your eyelids are so

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<v Speaker 3>sleepy and heavy and relaxed, like you're just one of

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<v Speaker 3>those babies that can't keep their eyes open. And as

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<v Speaker 3>you accept this heaviness into your eyelids, I'd like you

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<v Speaker 3>to accept this suggestion that your eyelids are in fact

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<v Speaker 3>so relaxed they will not open. And of course this

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<v Speaker 3>is just an imaginary suggestion, something that isn't true, but

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<v Speaker 3>we're going to pretend that it is. So now i'd

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<v Speaker 3>like you to test your eyelids to make sure they

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<v Speaker 3>won't open by wiggling your eyebrows. Just give your eyebrows

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<v Speaker 3>a little tug. Good, now you can stop testing good,

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<v Speaker 3>and this delicious heaviness you have in your eyelids and

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<v Speaker 3>around your eyes is the same quality of relaxation you

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<v Speaker 3>will soon have throughout your entire body. In fact, why

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<v Speaker 3>don't you just invite it from your eyes through your

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<v Speaker 3>whole body. As we take a few deep breaths as

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<v Speaker 3>you exhale, I'd like you to imagine that relaxation around

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<v Speaker 3>your eyes moving down like a waterfall, all the way

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<v Speaker 3>down through your body. So as you take a nice breath,

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<v Speaker 3>and as you exhale, imagine it moving all the way

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<v Speaker 3>down into your toes. Great, let's do it again, a

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<v Speaker 3>nice deep breath, and that relaxation is moving down like

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<v Speaker 3>a waterfall through your body, all the way down to

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<v Speaker 3>your toes. One more time, and imagine that relaxation moving down, down, down, Good,

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<v Speaker 3>as you take yourself deeper and deeper. If you've been

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<v Speaker 3>listening to sleep Magic for a while, you're getting really

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<v Speaker 3>good at relaxation. Relaxation is a practice like anything else,

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<v Speaker 3>like walking or learning a language, or any other habit

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<v Speaker 3>that you've created in your life, consciously or unconsciously. And

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<v Speaker 3>as you practice relaxation, you're getting better and better and

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<v Speaker 3>better and taking yourself deeper and deeper. And now that

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<v Speaker 3>you're relaxing on a regular basis, you're seeing so many

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<v Speaker 3>wonderful things begin to happen. Some of them are tiny

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<v Speaker 3>and subtle and difficult to put into words, and others

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<v Speaker 3>are remarkable, like, Wow, I reacted really differently in this situation. Wow,

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<v Speaker 3>I found myself relaxing at my desk aw and it

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<v Speaker 3>feels good to relax. Everything works better when we're relaxed.

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<v Speaker 3>So as you feel your head getting heavy on the

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<v Speaker 3>pillow and your is slowing down, as your shoulders become

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<v Speaker 3>nice and heavy, your arms sinking into the bed or

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<v Speaker 3>whatever they're touching, your arms getting nice and heavy, and

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<v Speaker 3>all of the sounds going on around you are taking

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<v Speaker 3>you deeper and deeper, because as you relax, you simply

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<v Speaker 3>open to the sounds, no longer resisting them. They pass

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<v Speaker 3>through you as vibrations, and you decide that they're taking

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<v Speaker 3>you deeper and deeper, and so they do. The only

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<v Speaker 3>sound you're paying any attention to is the sound of

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<v Speaker 3>my As I read tonight, you'll simply attach to the

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<v Speaker 3>sound of my voice. But soon the words will sort

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<v Speaker 3>of lose their meaning and just become sounds, and that

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<v Speaker 3>feels great, like you're listening to waves the beach taking

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<v Speaker 3>you deeper and deeper. As your torso is becoming heavy

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<v Speaker 3>on the bed, the muscles of your back softening and

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<v Speaker 3>letting go, the muscles of your belly releasing and relaxing

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<v Speaker 3>for perhaps the first time I'm today. As the relaxation

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<v Speaker 3>goes down into your legs, and your legs are feeling

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<v Speaker 3>nice and heavy on the bed, bring your awareness into

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<v Speaker 3>your feet and just allow your feet to let go.

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<v Speaker 3>They're on vacation. As the souls of your feet feel

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<v Speaker 3>warm and open, and any tension you may have built

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<v Speaker 3>up during the day is moving out the souls of

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<v Speaker 3>your feet. Good Mary went to her walk outside the

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<v Speaker 3>long ivy covered wall over which she could see the

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<v Speaker 3>tree tops, and the second time she walked up and down,

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<v Speaker 3>the most interesting and exciting thing happened to her. She

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<v Speaker 3>heard a chirt and a twitter, and when she looked

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<v Speaker 3>at the bare flower bed at her left side, there

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<v Speaker 3>he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out

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<v Speaker 3>of the earth. The little robin so filled her with

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<v Speaker 3>delight that she almost trembled a little. She chirped and

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<v Speaker 3>talked and coaxed, and he hopped and flirted his tail

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<v Speaker 3>and twittered. It was as if he were talking. His

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<v Speaker 3>red waistcoat was like and he puffed his tiny breast out,

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<v Speaker 3>and was so fine and so grand and so pretty

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<v Speaker 3>that it was really as if he were showing her

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<v Speaker 3>how important and like a human person a Robin could be.

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<v Speaker 3>Mary forgot that she had ever been contrary in her

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<v Speaker 3>life when he allowed her to draw closer and closer

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<v Speaker 3>to him, and bend down and talk and try to

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<v Speaker 3>make something like Robin sounds. Oh, to think he should

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<v Speaker 3>actually let her come as near to him as that.

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<v Speaker 3>He knew nothing in the world would make her put

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<v Speaker 3>out her hand toward him or startle him in the

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<v Speaker 3>least tiniest way. He knew it because he was a

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<v Speaker 3>real person, only nicer than any other person in the world.

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<v Speaker 3>She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.

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<v Speaker 3>The flower bed was not quite bare. It was bare

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<v Speaker 3>of flowers because the perennial plants had been cut down

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<v Speaker 3>for their winter rest. But there were tall shrubs and

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<v Speaker 3>low ones which grew together at the back of the bed,

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<v Speaker 3>and as the robin hopped about under them, she saw

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<v Speaker 3>him hop over a small pile of freshly turned up earth.

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<v Speaker 3>He stopped on it to look for a worm. The

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<v Speaker 3>earth had been turned up because a dog had been

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<v Speaker 3>trying to dig up a mole, and he had scratched

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<v Speaker 3>quite a deep hole. Mary looked at it, not really

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<v Speaker 3>knowing why the hole was there, And as she looked

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<v Speaker 3>she saw something almost buried in the newly turned soil.

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<v Speaker 3>It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass,

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<v Speaker 3>and when the robin flew up into a nearby tree,

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<v Speaker 3>she put out her hand and picked the ring up.

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<v Speaker 3>It was more than a ring, however, it was an

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<v Speaker 3>old key which looked as if it had been buried

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<v Speaker 3>a long time. Mistress Mary stood up and looked at

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<v Speaker 3>it with an almost frightened face as it hung from

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<v Speaker 3>her finger. Perhaps it has been buried for ten years,

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<v Speaker 3>she said in a whisper. Perhaps it is the key

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<v Speaker 3>to the garden. She had looked at the key for

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<v Speaker 3>quite a long time. She turned it over and over

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<v Speaker 3>and thought about it. As I've said before, she was

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<v Speaker 3>not a child who had been trained to ask permission

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<v Speaker 3>or consult her elders about things. All she thought about

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<v Speaker 3>the key was that if it was the key to

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<v Speaker 3>the closed garden, and she could find out where the

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<v Speaker 3>door was. She could perhaps open it and see what

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<v Speaker 3>was inside the walls, and what had happened to those

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<v Speaker 3>old rose trees. It was because it had been shut

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<v Speaker 3>up so long that she wanted to see it. It

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<v Speaker 3>seemed as if it must be different from other places,

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<v Speaker 3>and that something strange must have happened to it during

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<v Speaker 3>ten years. Besides that, if she liked it, she could

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<v Speaker 3>go into it every day and shut the door behind her,

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<v Speaker 3>and she could make up some play of her own

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<v Speaker 3>and play it quite alone, because nobody would ever know

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<v Speaker 3>where she was, but would think the door was still

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<v Speaker 3>locked and the key buried in the earth. The thought

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<v Speaker 3>of that pleased her very much. Living as it were,

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<v Speaker 3>all by herself in a house with a hundred mysteriously

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<v Speaker 3>closed rooms, and having nothing whatever to do to amuse

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<v Speaker 3>herself had set her inactive brain to working and was

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<v Speaker 3>actually awakening her imagination. There's no doubt that the fresh, strong,

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<v Speaker 3>pure air from the moor had a great deal to

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<v Speaker 3>do with it. Just as it had given her an appetite,

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<v Speaker 3>and fighting with the wind had stirred her blood, so

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<v Speaker 3>the same things had stirred her mind. She put the

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<v Speaker 3>key in her pocket and walked up and down her walk.

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<v Speaker 3>No one but herself ever seemed to come there, so

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<v Speaker 3>she could walk slowly and look at the wall, or

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<v Speaker 3>rather at the ivy growing on it. The ivy was

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<v Speaker 3>the baffling thing. Howsoever carefully she looked, she could see

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<v Speaker 3>nothing but thickly growing, glossy, dark green leaves. She was

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<v Speaker 3>very much disappointed. Something of her contrariness came back to

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<v Speaker 3>her as she paced the walk and looked over it

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<v Speaker 3>at the treetops inside. It seems so silly, she said

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<v Speaker 3>to herself, to be near it, not be able to

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<v Speaker 3>get in. She took the key in her pocket when

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<v Speaker 3>she went back to the house, and she made up

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<v Speaker 3>her mind that she would always carry it with her

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<v Speaker 3>when she went out, so that if she ever found

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<v Speaker 3>the hidden door, she would be ready. Missus medlock Mary

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<v Speaker 3>to sleep all night at the cottage, but she was

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<v Speaker 3>back exploring in the morning. With cheeks redder than ever,

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<v Speaker 3>and in the best of spirits. Mary skipped round all

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<v Speaker 3>the gardens and round the orchard, resting every few minutes.

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<v Speaker 3>At length, she went to her own special walk and

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<v Speaker 3>made up her mind to try if she could skip

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<v Speaker 3>the whole length of it. It was a good long skip,

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<v Speaker 3>and she began slowly, But before she had gone halfway

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<v Speaker 3>down the path she was so hot and breathless that

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<v Speaker 3>she was obliged to stop. She did not mind much,

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<v Speaker 3>because she had already counted up to thirty. She stopped

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<v Speaker 3>with a little laugh of pleasure. And there, lo and

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<v Speaker 3>behold was the robin, swaying on a long branch of ivy.

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<v Speaker 3>He had followed her, and he greeted her with a chirp.

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<v Speaker 3>As Mary had skipped toward him, she felt something heavy

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<v Speaker 3>in her pocket strike against her at each jump, and

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<v Speaker 3>when she saw the robin she laughed again. Hugh showed

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<v Speaker 3>me where the key was yesterday, She said, you ought

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<v Speaker 3>to show me the door to day, but I don't

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<v Speaker 3>believe you know. The robin flew from his swinging spray

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<v Speaker 3>of ivy on to the top of the wall, and

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<v Speaker 3>he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill,

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<v Speaker 3>merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite

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<v Speaker 3>as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off,

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<v Speaker 3>And they are nearly always doing it. Mary Lennox had

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<v Speaker 3>heard a great deal about magic in her Eye's stories.

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<v Speaker 3>And she always said that what happened almost at that

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<v Speaker 3>moment was magic. One of the nice little gusts of

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<v Speaker 3>one than the rest. It was strong enough to wave

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<v Speaker 3>the branches of the trees, and it was more than

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<v Speaker 3>strong enough to sway the trailing sprays of untrimmed ivy

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<v Speaker 3>hanging from the wall. Mary had stepped close to the robin,

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<v Speaker 3>and suddenly the gust of wind swung aside some loose

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<v Speaker 3>ivy trails, and more. Suddenly still, she jumped toward it

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<v Speaker 3>and caught it in her hand. This she did because

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<v Speaker 3>she had seen something under it, a round knob which

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<v Speaker 3>had been covered by the leaves hanging over it. It

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<v Speaker 3>was the knob of a door. She put her hands

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<v Speaker 3>under the leaves and began to pull and push them aside.

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<v Speaker 3>Thick as the ivy hung it, nearly all was a

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<v Speaker 3>loose and swinging curtain, though some had crept over wood

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<v Speaker 3>and iron. Mary's heart began to thumb, and her hands

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<v Speaker 3>to shake a little. In her delight and excitement. The

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<v Speaker 3>robin kept singing and twittering away and tilting his head

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<v Speaker 3>on one side as if he were as excited as

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<v Speaker 3>she was. What was this under her hands, which was

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<v Speaker 3>square and made of iron, and which her fingers found

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<v Speaker 3>a hole in. It was the lock of the door

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<v Speaker 3>which had been closed ten years. And she put her

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<v Speaker 3>hand in her pocket, drew out the key, and found

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<v Speaker 3>it fitted in the keyhole. She put the key in

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<v Speaker 3>and turned it. It took two hands to do it,

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<v Speaker 3>but it did turn. And then she took a long

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<v Speaker 3>breath and looked behind her up the long walk to

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<v Speaker 3>see if anyone was coming. No one was coming. No

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<v Speaker 3>one ever did come, it seemed. And she took another

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<v Speaker 3>long breath because she could not help it, And she

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<v Speaker 3>held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back

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<v Speaker 3>the door, which open slowly slowly. Then she slipped through

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<v Speaker 3>it and shut it behind her, and stood with her

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<v Speaker 3>back against it, looking about her, and breathe thing quite

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<v Speaker 3>past with excitement and wonder and delight. She was standing

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<v Speaker 3>inside the secret Garden. It was the sweetest, most mysterious

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<v Speaker 3>looking place anyone could imagine. The high walls which shut

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<v Speaker 3>it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses,

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<v Speaker 3>which were so thick they were matted together. Mary Lennox

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<v Speaker 3>knew they were roses, because she had seen a great

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<v Speaker 3>many roses in India. All the ground was covered with

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<v Speaker 3>a grass of a wintry brown, and out of it

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<v Speaker 3>grew clumps of bushes, which were surely rose bushes if

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<v Speaker 3>they were alive. There were numbers of standard roses which

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<v Speaker 3>had so spread their branches that they were like little trees.

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<v Speaker 3>There were other trees in the garden, and one of

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<v Speaker 3>the things which made the place the strangest and loveliest

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<v Speaker 3>was that climbing roses had run all over them, and

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<v Speaker 3>swung down long tendrils which made light swaying curtains. And

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<v Speaker 3>here and there they had caught at each other or

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<v Speaker 3>at a far reaching branch, and had crept from one

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<v Speaker 3>tree to another, and made lovely bridges of themselves. Were

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<v Speaker 3>neither leaves nor roses on them now, and Mary did

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<v Speaker 3>not know whether they were dead or alive. But their

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<v Speaker 3>thin gray or brown branches and sprays looked like a

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<v Speaker 3>sort of hazy mantle, spreading over everything, walls and trees

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<v Speaker 3>and even brown grass where they had fallen from their

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<v Speaker 3>fastenings and run along the ground. It was this hazy

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<v Speaker 3>tangle from tree to tree which made it all look

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<v Speaker 3>so mysterious. Mary had thought it must be different from

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<v Speaker 3>other gardens which had not been left all by themselves

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<v Speaker 3>so long, And indeed it was different from any other

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<v Speaker 3>place she had ever seen in her life. How still

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<v Speaker 3>it is, she whispered. Then she waited a moment and

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<v Speaker 3>listened at the stillness. The robin, who had flown to

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<v Speaker 3>his treetop was still as all the rest. He did

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<v Speaker 3>not even flutter his wicks. He signed without stirring, and

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<v Speaker 3>looked at Mary. No wonder it is still, she whispered again.

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<v Speaker 3>I am the first person who has spoken here in

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<v Speaker 3>ten years. She moved away from the door, stepping as

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<v Speaker 3>softly as if she were afraid of awakening someone. She

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<v Speaker 3>was glad that there was grass under her feet and

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<v Speaker 3>that her steps made no sound. She walked under one

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<v Speaker 3>of the fairy like gray arches between the trees and

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<v Speaker 3>looked up at the sprays and tendrils which formed them.

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<v Speaker 3>She was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come

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<v Speaker 3>through the door under the ivy anytime, and she felt

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<v Speaker 3>as if she had found a world all her own.

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<v Speaker 3>The sun shone down for nearly a week on the

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<v Speaker 3>Secret Garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it

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<v Speaker 3>when she was thinking of it. She liked the name,

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<v Speaker 3>and she liked still more the feeling that when its

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<v Speaker 3>beautiful old walls shut her in, no one knew where

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<v Speaker 3>she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of

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<v Speaker 3>the world in some fairy place. The few books she

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<v Speaker 3>had read and liked had been fairy story books, and

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<v Speaker 3>she had read of secret gardens In some of the stories.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years.

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<v Speaker 3>She was beginning to like to be out of doors.

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<v Speaker 3>No longer hated the wind, but enjoyed it. She could

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<v Speaker 3>run faster and longer, and she could skip up to

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<v Speaker 3>a hundred The bulbs in the secret garden must have

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<v Speaker 3>been much astonished such nice, clear places were made around them,

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<v Speaker 3>that they had all the breathing space they wanted, and really,

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<v Speaker 3>if Mary had known it, they began to cheer up

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<v Speaker 3>under the dark earth and work tremendously. The sun could

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<v Speaker 3>get out.

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<v Speaker 4>Them and warm them, and when the.

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<v Speaker 3>Rain came down it could reach them at once, so

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<v Speaker 3>they began to feel very much alive.

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