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1  She was almost afraid to answer.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  I am afraid there has been too much excitement.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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3  He seemed quite familiar and not the least afraid.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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4  The nurse came forward as if she were half afraid.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Because I should have been afraid you would see me.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  "Colin's so afraid of it himself that he won't sit up," said Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Neither of the creatures looked as if he were the least afraid of Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Mary was afraid that she might begin to ask difficult questions, but she did not.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  She moved away from the door, stepping as softly as if she were afraid of awakening some one.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  But because he kept breaking into a slow grin now and then, Mary was not afraid to talk to him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
11  But Mary was not as afraid of him as other people were and she was not a self-sacrificing person.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  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
13  Mary put her hand up to her throat because she was afraid he might see the excited lump which she felt jump into it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  "He's been lying in his room so long and he's always been so afraid of his back that it has made him queer," said Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  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
16  And then she told him about the robin and Ben Weatherstaff, and there was so much to tell about the robin and it was so easy and safe to talk about it that she ceased to be afraid.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
17  It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
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