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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>eBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVEThe June roses over the porch were awake bright andearly on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in thecloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as theywere. Quite flushed with excitement were their ruddyfaces, as they swung in the wind, whispering to oneanother what they had seen, for some peeped in at thedining room windows where the feast was spread, someclimbed up to nod and smile at the sisters as they dressedthe bride, others waved a welcome to those who cameand went on various errands in garden, porch, and hall,and all, from the rosiest full-blown flower to the palestbaby bud, offered their tribute of beauty and fragrance tothe gentle mistress who had loved and tended them solong.Meg looked very like a rose herself, for all that was bestand sweetest in heart and soul seemed to bloom into herface that day, making it fair and tender, with a charmmore beautiful than beauty. Neither silk, lace, nor orangeflowers would she have. ‘I don’t want a fashionablewedding, but only those about me whom I love, and tothem I wish to look and be my familiar self.’435 of 861

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