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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>CHAPTER SEVENTEENFor a week the amount of virtue in the old housewould have supplied the neighborhood. It was reallyamazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame ofmind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved of theirfirst anxiety about their father, girls insensibly relaxed theirpraiseworthy efforts a little, and began to fall back into oldways. They did not forget their motto, but hoping andkeeping busy seemed to grow easier, and after suchtremendous exertions, they felt that Endeavor deserved aholiday, and gave it a good many.Jo caught a bad cold through neglect to cover the shornhead enough, and was ordered to stay at home till she wasbetter, for Aunt March didn’t like to hear people readwith colds in their heads. Jo liked this, and after anenergetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on thesofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books. Amyfound that housework and art did not go well together,and returned to her mud pies. Meg went daily to herpupils, and sewed, or thought she did, at home, but muchtime was spent in writing long letters to her mother, or308 of 861

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