# Quote — Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

> “Oh, Dickon! Dickon!” she cried out. “How could you get here so early! How could you! The sun has only just got up!”
>
> He got up himself, laughing and glowing, and tousled; his eyes like a bit of the sky.
>
> “Eh!” he said. “I was up long before him. How could I have stayed abed! Th’ world’s all fair begun again this mornin’, it has. An’ it’s workin’ an’ hummin’ an’ scratchin’ an’ pipin’ an’ nest-buildin’ an’ breathin’ out scents, till you’ve got to be out on it ’stead o’ lyin’ on your back. When th’ sun did jump up, th’ moor went mad for joy, an’ I was in the midst of th’ heather, an’ I run like mad myself, shoutin’ an’ singin’. An’ I come straight here. I couldn’t have stayed away. Why, th’ garden was lyin’ here waitin’!”

- Author: [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett.md)
- Book: [The Secret Garden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett/the-secret-garden.md)
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> So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.

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