秘密花园的英文小故事

《秘密花园》(The Secret Garden)是美国女作家弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特创作的儿童文学作品。下面小编为大家整理的秘密花园的英文小故事，希望对大家有用!

秘密花园的英文小故事

“How queer and quiet it is,” she said. “It sounds as if there were no one in the bungalow but me and the snake.”Almost the next minute she heard footsteps in the compound, and then on the veranda. They were men’s footsteps, and the men entered the bungalow and talked in low voices. No one went to meet or speak to them and they seemed to open doors and look into rooms. “What desolation!” she heard one voice say. “That pretty, pretty woman! I suppose the child, too. I heard there was a child, though no one ever saw her.”Mary was standing in the middle of the nursery when they opened the door a few minutes later. She looked an ugly, cross little thing and was frowning because she was beginning to be hungry and feel disgracefully neglected. The first man who came in was a large officer she had once seen talking to her father. He looked tired and troubled, but when he saw her he was so startled that he almost jumped back.“Barney!” he cried out. “There is a child here! A child alone! In a place like this! Mercy on us, who is she!”

“I am Mary Lennox,” the little girl said, drawing herself up stiffly. She thought the man was very rude to call her father’s bungalow “A place like this!” “I fell asleep when everyone had the cholera and I have only just wakened up. Why does nobody come?”“It is the child no one ever saw!” exclaimed the man, turning to his companions. “She has actually been forgotten!”“Why was I forgotten?” Mary said, stamping her foot. “Why does nobody come?”The young man whose name was Barney looked at her very sadly. Mary even thought she saw him wink his eyes as if to wink tears away.“Poor little kid!” he said. “There is nobody left to come.”

It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night, and that the few native servants who had not died also had left the house as quickly as they could get out of it, none of them even remembering that there was a Missie Sahib. That was why the place was so quiet. It was true that there was no one in the bungalow but herself and the little rustling snake.