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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURIn order that we may start afresh and go to Meg’swedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with alittle gossip about the Marches. And here let me premisethat if any of the elders think there is too much ‘lovering’in the story, as I fear they may (I’m not afraid the youngfolks will make that objection), I can only say with Mrs.March, ‘What can you expect when I have four gay girlsin the house, and a dashing young neighbor over theway?’The three years that have passed have brought but fewchanges to the quiet family. The war is over, and Mr.March safely at home, busy with his books and the smallparish which found in him a minister by nature as bygrace, a quiet, studious man, rich in the wisdom that isbetter than learning, the charity which calls all mankind‘brother’, the piety that blossoms into character, making itaugust and lovely.These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strictintegrity which shut him out from the more worldlysuccesses, attracted to him many admirable persons, asnaturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gavethem the honey into which fifty years of hard experience415 of 861

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