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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>an ugly name, and she’ll go and fall in love, and there’s anend of peace and fun, and cozy times together. I see it all!They’ll go lovering around the house, and we shall haveto dodge. Meg will be absorbed and no good to me anymore. Brooke will scratch up a fortune somehow, carryher off, and make a hole in the family, and I shall breakmy heart, and everything will be abominablyuncomfortable. Oh, dear me! Why weren’t we all boys,then there wouldn’t be any bother.’Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolateattitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John. Mrs.March sighed, and Jo looked up with an air of relief.‘You don’t like it, Mother? I’m glad of it. Let’s sendhim about his business, and not tell Meg a word of it, butall be happy together as we always have been.’‘I did wrong to sigh, Jo. It is natural and right youshould all go to homes of your own in time, but I do wantto keep my girls as long as I can, and I am sorry that thishappened so soon, for Meg is only seventeen and it will besome years before John can make a home for her. Yourfather and I have agreed that she shall not bind herself inany way, nor be married, before twenty. If she and Johnlove one another, they can wait, and test the love bydoing so. She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her357 of 861

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