Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womenthe next day and now like Flora McFlimsey, she had‘nothing to wear’. But these were mere trifles, and theyassured their mother that the experiment was workingfinely. She smiled, said nothing, and with Hannah’s helpdid their neglected work, keeping home pleasant and thedomestic machinery running smoothly. It was astonishingwhat a peculiar and uncomfortable state of things wasproduced by the ‘resting and reveling’ process. The dayskept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusuallyvariable and so were tempers, and unsettled feelingpossessed everyone, and Satan found plenty of mischief forthe idle hands to do. As the height of luxury, Meg put outsome of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavilythat she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in herattempts to furbish them up a‘la Moffat. Jo read till hereyes gave out and she was sick of books, got so fidgetythat even good-natured Laurie had a quarrel with her, andso reduced in spirits that she desperately wished she hadgone with Aunt March. Beth got on pretty well, for shewas constantly forgetting that it was to be all play and nowork, and fell back into her old ways now and then. Butsomething in the air affected her, and more than once hertranquility was much disturbed, so much so that on oneoccasion she actually shook poor dear Joanna and told her196 of 861