简 介 “咱俩差不多，”本·威瑟斯塔夫老头对玛丽说。“长得丑，脾气也不好。” 可怜的玛丽！谁都不要她，也没人喜爱她。父母去世以后，她被人从印度送回英国的约克郡，住在她舅舅的家里。那是一幢旧房子，很大，差不多有上百个房间，可大部分都关得严严实实，还上了锁。玛丽住在那儿，情绪很坏，她感到厌烦、孤独，整天没事可做，除了园丁本·威瑟斯塔夫老头，没人跟她说说话。4I5F5。 不过后来玛丽听说了有关秘密花园的事。那花园的门紧锁着，钥匙也不知哪儿去了。10年了，除了那只能够飞过围墙的知更鸟，没有一个人进过那园子。玛丽望着知更鸟，琢磨着钥匙会在哪儿……awBu3。 再后来，夜里房子中什么地方传来奇怪的哭声，听起来像是个孩子…… 弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特生于1849年，卒于1924年。从16岁起她大部分时间住在美国，但常常回英格兰。她是一位终身作家，写了很多书，《秘密花园》是她的代表作。POQ1e。 1 Little Miss Mary Nobody seemed to care about Mary．She was born in India，where her father was a British official．He was busy with his work，and her mother，who was very beautiful， spent all her time going to parties．So an Indian woman，Kamala，was paid to take care of the little girl．Mary was not a pretty child．She had a thin angry face and thin yellow hair． She was always giving orders to Kamala，who had to obey． Mary never thought of other people， but only of herself．In fact，she was a very selfish，disagreeable，bad-tempered little girl．OpTpr。 One very hot morning，when she was about nine years old， she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed．NBUmG。 ‘What are you doing here？’she asked crossly．‘Go away！ And send Kamala to me at once！’ofm6s。 The woman looked afraid．‘I'm sorry，Miss Mary，she— she—she can't e！’isE74。 Something strange was happening that day．Some of the house servants were missing and everybody looked frightened． But nobody told Mary anything，and Kamala ...
