July 18 秘密の庭 The Secret Garden

July 18, 2008 (Friday)

    この日、ソラノ通りの銀行へ行こうとして、騒がしいサンパブロ通りを避けてバートの高架とバス通りのあいだの裏通りをときどき左へ折れながら歩いていたときに迷い込んでしまった場所。

 

 

 

The secret garden / by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) E-text at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

    "If tha' goes round that way tha'll come to th' gardens," she said, pointing to a gate in a wall of shrubbery.  "There's lots o' flowers in summer-time, but there's nothin' bloomin' now."  She seemed to hesitate a second before she added, "One of th' gardens is locked up. No one has been in it for ten years."
    "Why?" asked Mary in spite of herself.  Here was another locked door added to the hundred in the strange house.
    "Mr. Craven had it shut when his wife died so sudden.  He won't let no one go inside.  It was her garden.  He locked th' door an' dug a hole and buried th' key[. . .] ." 

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