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1  She did not believe she was speaking the truth.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Mary hesitated about two minutes and then boldly spoke the truth.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  To tell the truth, sir, Master Colin might be better and he might be changing for the worse.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  This was plain speaking, and Mary Lennox had never heard the truth about herself in her life.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  The truth was that she had been afraid she might find Mary crying and hiding her head under the bed-clothes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  The truth was that she was afraid that he would pick up his tools and go away if he saw her coming, so she always walked toward him as silently as possible.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  And now that an angry unsympathetic little girl insisted obstinately that he was not as ill as he thought he was he actually felt as if she might be speaking the truth.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  The truth was that he had never had a fight with any one like himself in his life and, upon the whole, it was rather good for him, though neither he nor Mary knew anything about that.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  The truth was that in spite of all he had heard he had not in the least understood what this boy would be like and that his fox and his crow and his squirrels and his lamb were so near to him and his friendliness that they seemed almost to be part of himself.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX