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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>CHAPTER SIXThe big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though ittook some time for all to get in, and Beth found it veryhard to pass the lions. Old Mr. Laurence was the biggestone, but after he had called, said something funny or kindto each one of the girls, and talked over old times withtheir mother, nobody felt much afraid of him, excepttimid Beth. The other lion was the fact that they werepoor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of acceptingfavors which they could not return. But, after a while,they found that he considered them the benefactors, andcould not do enough to show how grateful he was forMrs. March’s motherly welcome, their cheerful society,and the comfort he took in that humble home of theirs.So they soon forgot their pride and interchangedkindnesses without stopping to think which was thegreater.All sorts of pleasant things happened about that time,for the new friendship flourished like grass in spring. Everyone liked Laurie, and he privately informed his tutor that‘the Marches were regularly splendid girls.’ With thedelightful enthusiasm of youth, they took the solitary boy100 of 861

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