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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>very kind and neighborly. He and Jo keep us merry, forwe get pretty blue sometimes, and feel like orphans, withyou so far away. Hannah is a perfect saint. She does notscold at all, and always calls me Miss Margaret, which isquite proper, you know, and treats me with respect. Weare all well and busy, but we long, day and night, to haveyou back. Give my dearest love to Father, and believe me,ever your own...MEGThis note, prettily written on scented paper, was a greatcontrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet ofthin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all mannerof flourishes and curly-tailed letters.My precious Marmee:Three cheers for dear Father! Brooke was a trump totelegraph right off, and let us know the minute he wasbetter. I rushed up garret when the letter came, and triedto thank god for being so good to us, but I could only cry,and say, ‘I’m glad! I’m glad!’ Didn’t that do as well as aregular prayer? For I felt a great many in my heart. Wehave such funny times, and now I can enjoy them, foreveryone is so desperately good, it’s like living in a nest ofturtledoves. You’d laugh to see Meg head the table and tryto be motherish. She gets prettier every day, and I’m in301 of 861

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