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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>away as we planned, and that affair is settled. I’ll go andhear the fun, and have a good laugh over it.’But poor Jo never got her laugh, for she was transfixedupon the threshold by a spectacle which held her there,staring with her mouth nearly as wide open as her eyes.Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise astrong-minded sister for the banishment of anobjectionable lover, it certainly was a shock to behold theaforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with thestrongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearingan expression of the most abject submission. Jo gave a sortof gasp, as if a cold shower bath had suddenly fallen uponher, for such an unexpected turning of the tables actuallytook her breath away. At the odd sound the lovers turnedand saw her. Meg jumped up, looking both proud andshy, but ‘that man’, as Jo called him, actually laughed andsaid coolly, as he kissed the astonished newcomer, ‘SisterJo, congratulate us!’That was adding insult to injury, it was altogether toomuch, and making some wild demonstration with herhands, Jo vanished without a word. Rushing upstairs, shestartled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burstinto the room, ‘Oh, do somebody go down quick! JohnBrooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!’407 of 861

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