Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Date: 2022-07-28
| Jo immediately sat up, put her hands in her pockets, and began to
| whistle.  “Don’t, Jo. It’s so boyish!” “That’s why I do
| it.” “I detest rude, unladylike girls!” “I hate affected,
| niminy-piminy chits!”
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| It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy’s games
| and work and manners! I can’t get over my disappointment in not
| being a boy. And it’s worse than ever now, for I’m dying to go
| and fight with Papa. And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky
| old woman!”
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| Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty,
| being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown
| hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather
| vain. Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and
| reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with
| her long limbs, which were very much in her way. She had a decided
| mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, gray eyes, which appeared to see
| everything, and were by turns fierce, funny, or thoughtful. Her long,
| thick hair was her one beauty, but it was usually bundled into a net,
| to be out of her way
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| Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a flyaway look to her
| clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly
| shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it.
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| Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy,
| smooth-haired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner,
| a timid voice, and a peaceful expression which was seldom
| disturbed. Her father called her ‘Little Miss Tranquility’,
| and the name suited her excellently, for she seemed to live in a
| happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom
| she trusted and loved.
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| Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own
| opinion at least. A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow
| hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying
| herself like a young lady mindful of her manners. What the characters
| of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out
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| I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be
| loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their
| bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that
| when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of
| my little women
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| We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are
| playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here,
| our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness
| is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to
| the peace which is a true Celestial City. Now, my little pilgrims,
| suppose you begin again, not in play, but in earnest, and see how
| far on you can get before Father comes home
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| Mother wants us to read and love and mind these books, and we must
| begin at once. We used to be faithful about it, but since Father
| went away and all this war trouble unsettled us, we have neglected
| many things. You can do as you please, but I shall keep my book on
| the table here and read a little every morning as soon as I wake,
| for I know it will do me good and help me through the day
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| Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her,
| and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely.
Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR BURDENS


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| Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet,
| unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit
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| “My only comfort,” she said to Meg, with tears in her eyes,
| “is that Mother doesn’t take tucks in my dresses whenever I’m
| naughty, as Maria Parks’s mother does. My dear, it’s really
| dreadful, for sometimes she is so bad her frock is up to her knees,
| and she can’t come to school. When I think of this deggerredation,
| I feel that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown with yellow
| sky-rockets on it.”
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| parrylized
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| upon a time, there were four girls, who had enough to eat and
| drink and wear, a good many comforts and pleasures, kind friends
| and parents who loved them dearly, and yet they were not contented
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| So they asked an old woman what spell they could use to make them
| happy, and she said, ‘When you feel discontented, think over your
| blessings, and be grateful.’”
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| “Being sensible girls, they decided to try her advice, and soon
| were surprised to see how well off they were. One discovered that
| money couldn’t keep shame and sorrow out of rich people’s houses,
| another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier,
| with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful,
| feeble old lady who couldn’t enjoy her comforts, a third that,
| disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to
| go begging for it and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were
| not so valuable as good behavior.
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| “That boy is suffering for society and fun,” she said to
| herself. “His grandpa does not know what’s good for him, and
| keeps him shut up all alone. He needs a party of jolly boys to play
| with, or somebody young and lively. I’ve a great mind to go over
| and tell the old gentleman so!”
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| “Isn’t there some nice girl who’d read and amuse you? Girls
| are quiet and like to play nurse.”
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| Tell on, please,”
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| She was standing before a fine portrait of the old gentleman when
| the door opened again, and without turning, she said decidedly,
| “I’m sure now that I shouldn’t be afraid of him, for he’s
| got kind eyes, though his mouth is grim, and he looks as if he had a
| tremendous will of his own. He isn’t as handsome as my grandfather,
| but I like him.” “Thank you, ma’am,” said a gruff voice
| behind her, and there, to her great dismay, stood old Mr. Laurence.
| Poor Jo blushed till she couldn’t blush any redder, and her heart
| began to beat uncomfortably fast as she thought what she had said.
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| redoubtable
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| If the Laurences had been what Jo called ‘prim and poky’, she
| would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy
| and awkward. But finding them free and easy, she was so herself,
| and made a good impression.
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| That was a nice little speech about the medicine Mother sent him.”
| “He meant the blanc mange, I suppose.” “How stupid you are,
| child! He meant you, of course.” “Did he?” And Jo opened her
| eyes as if it had never occurred to her before.  “I never saw such
| a girl! You don’t know a compliment when you get it,” said Meg,
| with the air of a young lady who knew all about the matter.
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| infirmity
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| Quite by accident, of course, some pretty, easy music lay on the
| piano, and with trembling fingers and frequent stops to listen and
| look about, Beth at last touched the great instrument
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| After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge nearly
| every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful spirit
| that came and went unseen. She never knew that Mr. Laurence opened
| his study door to hear the old-fashioned airs he liked. She never
| saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away. She
| never suspected that the exercise books and new songs which she
| found in the rack were put there for her especial benefit, and when
| he talked to her about music at home, she only thought how kind he
| was to tell things that helped her so much.
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| She was a nimble little needlewoman, and they were finished before
| anyone got tired of them.
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| I came to thank you, sir, for...” But she didn’t finish, for he
| looked so friendly that she forgot her speech and, only remembering
| that he had lost the little girl he loved, she put both arms round
| his neck and kissed him
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| for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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| When the girls saw that performance, Jo began to dance a jig,
| by way of expressing her satisfaction,
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| “Why, I owe at least a dozen pickled limes, and I can’t pay
| them, you know, till I have money, for Marmee forbade my having
| anything charged at the shop.” “Tell me all about it. Are limes
| the fashion now? It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make
| balls.” And Meg tried to keep her countenance, Amy looked so grave
| and important.  “Why, you see, the girls are always buying them,
| and unless you want to be thought mean, you must do it too. It’s
| nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks
| in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper
| dolls, or something else, at recess. If one girl likes another,
| she gives her a lime. If she’s mad with her, she eats one before
| her face, and doesn’t offer even a suck. They treat by turns,
| and I’ve had ever so many but haven’t returned them, and I
| ought for they are debts of honor, you know
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| I’m actually suffering for one.”
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| Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of
| a schoolgirl, “He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a
| bear”. The word ‘limes’ was like fire to powder, his yellow
| face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made
| Jenny skip to her seat with unusual rapidity.
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| conceit spoils the finest genius
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| we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it
| often takes us all our lives to conquer them. You think your temper
| is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it
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| ve learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when
| I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away
| for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak
| and wicked,”
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| you must keep watch over your ‘bosom enemy’, as father calls
| it, or it may sadden, if not spoil your life. You have had a
| warning. Remember it, and try with heart and soul to master this
| quick temper, before it brings you greater sorrow and regret than
| you have known today
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| go abroady’ trunk
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| Well, I am happy, and I won’t fret, but it does seem as if the
| more one gets the more one wants, doesn’t it?
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| “Daisy March—father a colonel in the army—one of our first
| families, but reverses of fortune, you know; intimate friends of
| the Laurences; sweet creature, I assure you; my Ned is quite wild
| about her.”
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| want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be
| admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well
| and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as
| little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be
| loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which
| can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this
| beautiful experience. It is natural to think of it, Meg, right to
| hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it, so that when the
| happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of
| the joy. My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you
| make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are
| rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is
| wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used,
| a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or
| only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives,
| if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones,
| without self-respect and peace
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| s bed was never alike two seasons, for she was always trying
| experiments.
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| Pickwick Club
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| Augustus Snodgrass,
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| samphire
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| deaconed
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| Don’t you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have
| daily duties which make leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear
| and forbear, that home may be comfortable and lovely to us all?”
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| “Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again,
| for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and
| lighten as we learn to carry them. Work is wholesome, and there
| is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is
| good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and
| independence better than money or fashion.”
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| gingham morning gown
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| That’s my good girl. You do try to fight off your shyness,
| and I love you for it. Fighting faults isn’t easy, as I know,
| and a cheery word kind of gives a lift.
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| Rig-marole
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| sepulchral
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| And Miss Kate strolled away, adding to herself with a shrug, “I
| didn’t come to chaperone a governess, though she is young and
| pretty. What odd people these Yankees are. I’m afraid Laurie will
| be quite spoiled among them.”
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| “My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to
| be,” said Amy, well pleased at Beth’s success. She meant
| ‘facinating’, but as Grace didn’t know the exact meaning of
| either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression.
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| He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable
| and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over
| again. The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his
| studies, tried Mr. Brooke’s patience to the utmost, displeased
| his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the
| maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one
| of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman
| about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into
| his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general,
| till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.
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| It was a rather pretty little picture, for the sisters sat together
| in the shady nook, with sun and shadow flickering over them, the
| aromatic wind lifting their hair and cooling their hot cheeks,
| and all the little wood people going on with their affairs as if
| these were no strangers but old friends. Meg sat upon her cushion,
| sewing daintily with her white hands, and looking as fresh and sweet
| as a rose in her pink dress among the green. Beth was sorting the
| cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty
| things with them. Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was
| knitting as she read aloud. A shadow passed over the boy’s face
| as he watched them, feeling that he
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| I’ve no objection, if you do something. It’s against the rules
| to be idle here,” replied Meg gravely but graciously.
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| Bee Society
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| Pilgrim’s Progress
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| For the fun of it we bring our things in these bags, wear the old
| hats, use poles to climb the hill, and play pilgrims, as we used to
| do years ago. We call this hill the Delectable Mountain, for we can
| look far away and see the country where we hope to live some time.”
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| “You’ll have me for company, if that’s any comfort. I shall
| have to do a deal of traveling before I come in sight of your
| Celestial City. If I arrive late, you’ll say a good word for me,
| won’t you, Beth?” Something in the boy’s face troubled his
| little friend, but she said cheerfully, with her quiet eyes on the
| changing clouds, “If people really want to go, and really try
| all their lives, I think they will get in, for I don’t believe
| there are any locks on that door or any guards at the gate. I
| always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining
| ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes
| up from the river.” “Wouldn’t it be fun if all the castles
| in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in
| them?” said Jo, after a little pause
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| After I’d seen as much of the world as I want to, I’d like to
| settle in Germany and have just as much music as I choose. I’m to
| be a famous musician myself, and all creation is to rush to hear
| me. And I’m never to be bothered about money or business, but
| just enjoy myself and live for what I like. That’s my favorite
| castle. What’s yours, Meg
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| “I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious
| things—nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant
| people, and heaps of money. I am to be mistress of it, and manage it
| as I like, with plenty of servants, so I never need work a bit. How
| I should enjoy it! For I wouldn’t be idle, but do good, and make
| everyone love me dearly.”
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| Wouldn’t I though? I’d have a stable full of Arabian steeds,
| rooms piled high with books, and I’d write out of a magic inkstand,
| so that my works should be as famous as Laurie’s music. I want to
| do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic
| or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t
| know what, but I’m on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you
| all some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous,
| that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream
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| “Mine is to stay at home safe with Father and Mother, and help
| take care of the family,” said Beth contentedly.  “Don’t you
| wish for anything else?” asked Laurie.  “Since I had my little
| piano, I am perfectly satisfied. I only wish we may all keep well
| and be together, nothing else.”
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| Remembering the conversation of the afternoon, the boy said
| to himself, with the resolve to make the sacrifice cheerfully,
| “I’ll let my castle go, and stay with the dear old gentleman
| while he needs me, for I am all he has.”
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| authoress
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| cherub
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| “You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such
| romping ways?” said Meg reprovingly, as she settled her cuffs
| and smoothed her hair, with which the wind had taken liberties.
| “Never till I’m stiff and old and have to use a crutch. Don’t
| try to make me grow up before my time, Meg. It’s hard enough to
| have you change all of a sudden. Let me be a little girl as long
| as I can
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| Dear me, how delighted they all were, to be sure! How Meg wouldn’t
| believe it till she saw the words. “Miss Josephine March,”
| actually printed in the paper. How graciously Amy criticized the
| artistic parts of the story, and offered hints for a sequel, which
| unfortunately couldn’t be carried out, as the hero and heroine
| were dead. How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy. How
| Hannah came in to exclaim, “Sakes alive, well I never!” in great
| astonishment at ‘that Jo’s doin’s’. How proud Mrs. March was
| when she knew it. How Jo laughed, with tears in her eyes, as she
| declared she might as well be a peacock and done with it, and how
| the ‘Spread Eagle’ might be said to flap his wings triumphantly
| over the House of March, as the paper passed from hand to hand.
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| bedewed
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| “November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,”
| said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking
| out at the frostbitten garden.  “That’s the reason I was born
| in it,” observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot
| on her nose.  “If something very pleasant should happen now,
| we should think it a delightful month,” said Beth, who took a
| hopeful view of everything, even November.
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| “Won’t some of you come for a drive? I’ve been working away at
| mathematics till my head is in a muddle, and I’m going to freshen
| my wits by a brisk turn. It’s a dull day, but the air isn’t
| bad, and I’m going to take Brooke home, so it will be gay inside,
| if it isn’t out. Come, Jo, you and Beth will go, won’t you?”
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| “It’s one of them horrid telegraph things, mum,” she said,
| handling it as if she was afraid it would explode and do some damage.
| At the word ‘telegraph’, Mrs. March snatched it, read the two
| lines it contained, and dropped back into her chair as white as if
| the little paper had sent a bullet to her heart.
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| took a last look at my hair while the man got his things, and that
| was the end of it. I never snivel over trifles like that. I will
| confess, though, I felt queer when I saw the dear old hair laid
| out on the table, and felt only the short rough ends of my head. It
| almost seemed as if I’d an arm or leg off. The woman saw me look
| at it, and picked out a long lock for me to keep. I’ll give it
| to you, Marmee, just to remember past glories by, for a crop is so
| comfortable I don’t think I shall ever have a mane again
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| I thought you were asleep, so I just made a little private moan
| for my one beauty. How came you to be awake?”
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| coverlet
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| As she lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the
| moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds and shone upon her like a
| bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, “Be
| comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”
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| At first, everyone was eager to write, and plump envelopes were
| carefully poked into the letter box by one or other of the sisters,
| who felt rather important with their Washington correspondence. As
| one of these packets contained characteristic notes from the party,
| we will rob an imaginary mail, and read them.
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| I made a ‘pome’ yesterday, when I was helping Hannah wash,
| and as Father likes my silly little things, I put it in to amuse
| him. Give him my lovingest hug that ever was, and kiss yourself a
| dozen times for your...
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| A SONG FROM THE SUDS Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the
| white foam rises high, And sturdily wash and rinse and wring, And
| fasten the clothes to dry. Then out in the free fresh air they swing,
| Under the sunny sky.  I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls
| The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic
| make Ourselves as pure as they. Then on the earth there would be
| indeed, A glorious washing day!  Along the path of a useful life,
| Will heart’s-ease ever bloom. The busy mind has no time to think
| Of sorrow or care or gloom. And anxious thoughts may be swept away,
| As we bravely wield a broom.  I am glad a task to me is given,
| To labor at day by day, For it brings me health and strength and
| hope, And I cheerfully learn to say, “Head, you may think, Heart,
| you may feel, But, Hand, you shall work alway!”
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| My bread is riz, so no more at this time.
Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTEEN LETTERS


Date: 2022-08-03
| Then it was that Margaret, sitting alone with tears dropping often
| on her work, felt how rich she had been in things more precious
| than any luxuries money could buy—in love, protection, peace,
| and health, the real blessings of life. Then it was that Jo, living
| in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always
| before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears,
| learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth’s nature,
| to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and
| to acknowledge the worth of Beth’s unselfish ambition to live
| for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple
| virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value
| more than talent, wealth, or beauty
Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN DARK DAYS


Date: 2022-08-03
| interferingest
Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN DARK DAYS


Date: 2022-08-04
| codicils
Chapter: CHAPTER NINETEEN AMY’S WILL


Date: 2022-08-04
| It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be
| quiet, when things vex or grieve us
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY CONFIDENTIAL


Date: 2022-08-04
| “Do you think Meg cares for him?” asked Mrs. March, with an
| anxious look.  “Mercy me! I don’t know anything about love and
| such nonsense!” cried Jo, with a funny mixture of interest and
| contempt. “In novels, the girls show it by starting and blushing,
| fainting away, growing thin, and acting like fools. Now Meg does
| not do anything of the sort.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY CONFIDENTIAL


Date: 2022-08-04
| weathercock
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY CONFIDENTIAL


Date: 2022-08-04
| “She feels it in the air—love, I mean—and she’s going
| very fast. She’s got most of the symptoms—is twittery and
| cross, doesn’t eat, lies awake, and mopes in corners. I caught
| her singing that song he gave her, and once she said ‘John’,
| as you do, and then turned as red as a poppy. Whatever shall we
| do?” said Jo, looking ready for any measures, however violent.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE


Date: 2022-08-05
| Boswell’s Johnson
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE


Date: 2022-08-06
| Undine and Sintram
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| Why Mr. March paused a minute just there, and after a glance at
| Meg, who was violently poking the fire, looked at his wife with an
| inquiring lift of the eyebrows, I leave you to imagine. Also why
| Mrs. March gently nodded her head and asked, rather abruptly, if
| he wouldn’t like to have something to eat. Jo saw and understood
| the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea,
| muttering to herself as she slammed the door, “I hate estimable
| young men with brown eyes!”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| “Rather a rough road for you to travel, my little pilgrims,
| especially the latter part of it. But you have got on bravely,
| and I think the burdens are in a fair way to tumble off very soon,”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| And taking up the hand which lay on the arm of his chair, he pointed
| to the roughened forefinger, a burn on the back, and two or three
| little hard spots on the palm. “I remember a time when this hand
| was white and smooth, and your first care was to keep it so. It was
| very pretty then, but to me it is much prettier now, for in this
| seeming blemishes I read a little history. A burnt offering has been
| made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than
| blisters, and I’m sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers
| will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches. Meg,
| my dear, I value the womanly skill which keeps home happy more than
| white hands or fashionable accomplishments. I’m proud to shake
| this good, industrious little hand, and hope I shall not soon be
| asked to give it away
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| “In spite of the curly crop, I don’t see the ‘son Jo’
| whom I left a year ago,” said Mr. March. “I see a young lady
| who pins her collar straight, laces her boots neatly, and neither
| whistles, talks slang, nor lies on the rug as she used to do. Her
| face is rather thin and pale just now, with watching and anxiety,
| but I like to look at it, for it has grown gentler, and her voice is
| lower. She doesn’t bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a
| certain little person in a motherly way which delights me. I rather
| miss my wild girl, but if I get a strong, helpful, tenderhearted
| woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. I don’t know
| whether the shearing sobered our black sheep, but I do know that
| in all Washington I couldn’t find anything beautiful enough to
| be bought with the five-and-twenty dollars my good girl sent me.”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| “There’s so little of her, I’m afraid to say much, for fear
| she will slip away altogether, though she is not so shy as she
| used to be,” began their father cheerfully. But recollecting
| how nearly he had lost her, he held her close, saying tenderly,
| with her cheek against his own, “I’ve got you safe, my Beth,
| and I’ll keep you so, please God.”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| “I observed that Amy took drumsticks at dinner, ran errands
| for her mother all the afternoon, gave Meg her place tonight,
| and has waited on every one with patience and good humor. I also
| observe that she does not fret much nor look in the glass, and
| has not even mentioned a very pretty ring which she wears, so I
| conclude that she has learned to think of other people more and
| of herself less, and has decided to try and mold her character as
| carefully as she molds her little clay figures. I am glad of this,
| for though I should be very proud of a graceful statue made by her,
| I shall be infinitely prouder of a lovable daughter with a talent
| for making life beautiful to herself and others.”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-06
| He that is down need fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that
| is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.  I am content with
| what I have, Little be it, or much. And, Lord! Contentment still
| I crave, Because Thou savest such.  Fulness to them a burden is,
| That go on pilgrimage. Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best
| from age to age!
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PLEASANT MEADOWS


Date: 2022-08-07
| It was a tiny house, with a little garden behind and a lawn about
| as big as a pocket handkerchief in the front.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR GOSSIP


Date: 2022-08-08
| Meg looked very like a rose herself, for all that was best and
| sweetest in heart and soul seemed to bloom into her face that day,
| making it fair and tender, with a charm more beautiful than beauty.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE FIRST WEDDING


Date: 2022-08-08
| am I merely laboring under a delusion
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE FIRST WEDDING


Date: 2022-08-09
| ardor
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS


Date: 2022-08-09
| Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not
| in the best mood for social enterprises
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS


Date: 2022-08-10
| surfeit
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS


Date: 2022-08-11
| Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her
| scribbling suit, and ‘fall into a vortex’, as she expressed it,
| writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till
| that was finished she could find no peace.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-11
| Her ‘scribbling suit’ consisted of a black woolen pinafore on
| which she could wipe her pen at will, and a cap of the same material,
| adorned with a cheerful red bow, into which she bundled her hair
| when the decks were cleared for action. This cap was a beacon to
| the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept
| their distance, merely popping in their heads semi-occasionally
| to ask, with interest, “Does genius burn, Jo?” They did not
| always venture even to ask this question, but took an observation
| of the cap, and judged accordingly. If this expressive article of
| dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work
| was going on, in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew,
| and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and
| cast upon the floor. At such times the intruder silently withdrew,
| and not until the red bow was seen gaily erect upon the gifted brow,
| did anyone dare address Jo
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-13
| “Do you say she makes a good living out of stories like this?”
| and Jo looked more respectfully at the agitated group and thickly
| sprinkled exclamation points that adorned the page.  “Guess she
| does! She knows just what folks like, and gets paid well for
| writing it.”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-13
| “Don’t spoil your book, my girl, for there is more in it than
| you know, and the idea is well worked out. Let it wait and ripen,”
| was her father’s advice, and he practiced what he preached, having
| waited patiently thirty years for fruit of his own to ripen, and
| being in no haste to gather it even now when it was sweet and mellow.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-13
| wouldn’t leave a word out of it. You’ll spoil it if you do,
| for the interest of the story is more in the minds than in the
| actions of the people, and it will be all a muddle if you don’t
| explain as you go on,” said Meg, who firmly believed that this
| book was the most remarkable novel ever written
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-13
| Make a good, popular book, and get as much money as you
| can. By-and-by, when you’ve got a name, you can afford to digress,
| and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels,”
| said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject.
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-13
| Not being a genius, like Keats, it won’t kill me,” she said
| stoutly, “and I’ve got the joke on my side, after all, for
| the parts that were taken straight out of real life are denounced
| as impossible and absurd, and the scenes that I made up out of my
| own silly head are pronounced ‘charmingly natural, tender, and
| true’. So I’ll comfort myself with that, and when I’m ready,
| I’ll up again and take another
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS


Date: 2022-08-13
| “Hold it up when you walk, but drop it in the house. The
| sweeping style suits you best, and you must learn to trail your
| skirts gracefully. You haven’t half buttoned one cuff, do it at
| once. You’ll never look finished if you are not careful about
| the little details, for they make up the pleasing whole.”
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CALLS


Date: 2022-08-13
| alacrity
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CALLS


Date: 2022-08-13
| I wish it was as easy for me to do little things to please people
| as it is for you. I think of them, but it takes too much time to
| do them, so I wait for a chance to confer a great favor, and let
| the small ones slip, but they tell best in the end, I fancy
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CALLS


Date: 2022-08-14
| A kiss for a blow is always best, though it’s not very easy to
| give it sometimes,”
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY CONSEQUENCES


Date: 2022-08-15
| dowagers
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT


Date: 2022-08-15
| Dear heart, how fast you do grow up,”
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO TENDER TROUBLES


Date: 2022-08-15
| assiduity
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO TENDER TROUBLES


Date: 2022-08-15
| ’m glad you can’t flirt. It’s really refreshing to see a
| sensible, straightforward girl, who can be jolly and kind without
| making a fool of herself
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO TENDER TROUBLES


Date: 2022-08-15
| I want something new. I feel restless and anxious to be seeing,
| doing, and learning more than I am. I brood too much over my own
| small affairs, and need stirring up, so as I can be spared this
| winter, I’d like to hop a little way and try my wings
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO TENDER TROUBLES


Date: 2022-08-15
| When Laurie said good-by, he whispered significantly, “It won’t
| do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you, so mind what you do, or
| I’ll come and bring you home.”
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO TENDER TROUBLES


Date: 2022-08-15
| trifles show character.
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE JO’S JOURNAL


Date: 2022-08-15
| darning
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE JO’S JOURNAL


Date: 2022-08-15
| meerschaum
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE JO’S JOURNAL


Date: 2022-08-15
| standish
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE JO’S JOURNAL


Date: 2022-08-15
| To see them dance was ‘quite a landscape’, to use a Teddyism.
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE JO’S JOURNAL


Date: 2022-08-16
| There were lines upon his forehead, but Time seemed to have touched
| him gently, remembering how kind he was to others.
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR FRIEND


Date: 2022-08-16
| The conversations were miles beyond Jo’s comprehension, but she
| enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective
| and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing ‘evolved
| from her inner consciousness’ was a bad headache after it was all
| over. It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked
| to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers,
| on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in
| a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to
| be the only God. Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of
| any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful,
| came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift
| into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR FRIEND


Date: 2022-08-16
| I almost wish I hadn’t any conscience, it’s so inconvenient. If
| I didn’t care about doing right, and didn’t feel uncomfortable
| when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can’t help wishing
| sometimes, that Mother and Father hadn’t been so particular about
| such things
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR FRIEND


Date: 2022-08-16
| levee
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR FRIEND


Date: 2022-08-16
| Early as it was, he was at the station next morning to see Jo off,
| and thanks to him, she began her solitary journey with the pleasant
| memory of a familiar face smiling its farewell, a bunch of violets
| to keep her company, and best of all, the happy thought, “Well,
| the winter’s gone, and I’ve written no books, earned no fortune,
| but I’ve made a friend worth having and I’ll try to keep him
| all my life.”
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR FRIEND


Date: 2022-08-17
| superannuated
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE HEARTACHE


Date: 2022-08-17
| sick fancy
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX BETH’S SECRET


Date: 2022-08-18
| envy him his inches
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-18
| aplomb
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-18
| prinked
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-20
| Her hair she had the sense to let alone, after gathering up the
| thick waves and curls into a Hebe-like knot at the back of her head.
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-20
| “My new fan just matches my flowers, my gloves fit to a charm, and
| the real lace on Aunt’s mouchoir gives an air to my whole dress. If
| I only had a classical nose and mouth I should be perfectly happy,”
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-21
| propitious
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-21
| nosegay
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-21
| cotillion
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-21
| gamboled
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-21
| nor why he filled up her book with his own name, and devoted himself
| to her for the rest of the evening
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS


Date: 2022-08-22
| In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are
| married, when ‘Vive la liberte!’ becomes their motto. In America,
| as everyone knows, girls early sign the declaration of independence,
| and enjoy their freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons
| usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a
| seclusion almost as close as a French nunnery, though by no means
| as quiet. Whether they like it or not, they are virtually put
| upon the shelf as soon as the wedding excitement is over, and most
| of them might exclaim, as did a very pretty woman the other day,
| “I’m as handsome as ever, but no one takes any notice of me
| because I’m married.”
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ON THE SHELF


Date: 2022-08-22
| pertinacious
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ON THE SHELF


Date: 2022-08-22
| wile
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ON THE SHELF


Date: 2022-08-22
| marplot
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ON THE SHELF


Date: 2022-08-22
| millinery
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ON THE SHELF


Date: 2022-08-23
| capaline
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE LAZY LAURENCE


Date: 2022-08-23
| Telemachus
Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE LAZY LAURENCE


Date: 2022-08-23
| Lessons in patience were so sweetly taught her that she could
| not fail to learn them, charity for all, the lovely spirit that
| can forgive and truly forget unkindness, the loyalty to duty that
| makes the hardest easy, and the sincere faith that fears nothing,
| but trusts undoubtingly.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW


Date: 2022-08-23
| For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by
| the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister’s
| life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which
| ‘smell sweet, and blossom in the dust’, the self-forgetfulness
| that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven,
| the true success which is possible to all.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW


Date: 2022-08-24
| remember that I don’t forget you, and that you’ll be happier
| in doing that than writing splendid books or seeing all the world,
| for love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go,
| and it makes the end so easy.”
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW


Date: 2022-08-26
| “Frost opens chestnut burrs, ma’am, and it takes a good shake
| to bring them down. Boys go nutting, and I don’t care to be bagged
| by them,” returned Jo, pasting away at the kite which no wind that
| blows would ever carry up, for Daisy had tied herself on as a bob.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE


Date: 2022-08-26
| Grief is the best opener of some hearts, and Jo’s was nearly
| ready for the bag. A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then,
| not a boy’s impatient shake, but a man’s hand reached up to pick
| it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet. If
| she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more
| prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn’t thinking about herself,
| so when the time came, down she dropped.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE


Date: 2022-08-26
| Write something for us, and never mind the rest of the world. Try it,
| dear. I’m sure it would do you good, and please us very much.”
| “Don’t believe I can.” But Jo got out her desk and began
| to overhaul her half-finished manuscripts.  An hour afterward
| her mother peeped in and there she was, scratching away, with
| her black pinafore on, and an absorbed expression, which caused
| Mrs. March to smile and slip away, well pleased with the success
| of her suggestion. Jo never knew how it happened, but something got
| into that story that went straight to the hearts of those who read
| it, for when her family had laughed and cried over it, her father
| sent it, much against her will, to one of the popular magazines,
| and to her utter surprise, it was not only paid for,
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE


Date: 2022-08-26
| “Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they
| have girls to manage.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE


Date: 2022-08-26
| I’m glad of that, Jo, for it shows that you are getting on. There
| are plenty to love you, so try to be satisfied with Father and
| Mother, sisters and brothers, friends and babies, till the best
| lover of all comes to give you your reward.” “Mothers are the
| best lovers in the world, but I don’t mind whispering to Marmee
| that I’d like to try all kinds. It’s very curious, but the
| more I try to satisfy myself with all sorts of natural affections,
| the more I seem to want. I’d no idea hearts could take in so
| many. Mine is so elastic, it never seems full now, and I used to
| be quite contented with my family. I don’t understand it.”
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE


Date: 2022-08-27
| for he lets me read his heart,
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE


Date: 2022-08-27
| “An old maid, that’s what I’m to be. A literary spinster, with
| a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty
| years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps, when, like poor Johnson,
| I’m old and can’t enjoy it, solitary, and can’t share it,
| independent, and don’t need it. Well, I needn’t be a sour
| saint nor a selfish sinner, and, I dare say, old maids are very
| comfortable when they get used to it, but...” and there Jo sighed,
| as if the prospect was not inviting.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-THREE SURPRISES


Date: 2022-08-27
| scapegrace
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-THREE SURPRISES


Date: 2022-08-28
| for marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s
| duties
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-THREE SURPRISES


Date: 2022-08-28
| henpecked
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-THREE SURPRISES


Date: 2022-08-29
| salubrious
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR MY LORD AND LADY


Date: 2022-08-29
| “Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or
| let their money accumulate for others to waste. It’s not half so
| sensible to leave legacies when one dies as it is to use the money
| wisely while alive, and enjoy making one’s fellow creatures happy
| with it. We’ll have a good time ourselves, and add an extra relish
| to our own pleasure by giving other people a generous taste.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR MY LORD AND LADY


Date: 2022-08-30
| calico
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-SIX UNDER THE UMBRELLA


Date: 2022-08-30
| hobbledehoy
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN HARVEST TIME


Date: 2022-09-03
| Pomonas
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN HARVEST TIME


Date: 2022-09-04
| Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad
| and dreary.
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN HARVEST TIME