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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>countenance, ‘What a good fellow you are, Jo! Did youget blown up?’ he added, laughing.‘No, he was pretty mild, on the whole.’‘AH! I got it all round. Even you cast me off overthere, and I felt just ready to go to the deuce,’ he beganapologetically.‘Don’t talk that way, turn over a new leaf and beginagain, Teddy, my son.’‘I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as Iused to spoil my copybooks, and I make so manybeginnings there never will be an end,’ he said dolefully.‘Go and eat your dinner, you’ll feel better after it. Menalways croak when they are hungry,’ and Jo whisked outat the front door after that.‘That’s a ‘label’ on my ‘sect’,’ answered Laurie, quotingAmy, as he went to partake of humble pie dutifully withhis grandfather, who was quite saintly in temper andoverwhelmingly respectful in manner all the rest of theday.Everyone thought the matter ended and the little cloudblown over, but the mischief was done, for though othersforgot it, Meg remembered. She never alluded to a certainperson, but she thought of him a good deal, dreameddreams more than ever, and once Jo, rummaging her380 of 861

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