Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little WomenCHAPTER TWENTY-THREELike bees swarming after their queen, mother anddaughters hovered about Mr. March the next day,neglecting everything to look at, wait upon, and listen tothe new invalid, who was in a fair way to be killed bykindness. As he sat propped up in a big chair by Beth’ssofa, with the other three close by, and Hannah poppingin her head now and then ‘to peek at the dear man’,nothing seemed needed to complete their happiness. Butsomething was needed, and the elder ones felt it, thoughnone confessed the fact. Mr. and Mrs. March looked atone another with an anxious expression, as their eyesfollowed Meg. Jo had sudden fits of sobriety, and was seento shake her fist at Mr. Brooke’s umbrella, which had beenleft in the hall. Meg was absent-minded, shy, and silent,started when the bell rang, and colored when John’s namewas mentioned. Amy said, ‘Everyone seemed waiting forsomething, and couldn’t settle down, which was queer,since Father was safe at home,’ and Beth innocentlywondered why their neighbors didn’t run over as usual.Laurie went by in the afternoon, and seeing Meg at thewindow, seemed suddenly possessed with a melodramatic394 of 861