Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womenpicturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy. Shecaught endless colds sitting on damp grass to book‘delicious bit’, composed of a stone, a stump, onemushroom, and a broken mullein stalk, or ‘a heavenlymass of clouds’, that looked like a choice display offeatherbeds when done. She sacrificed her complexionfloating on the river in the midsummer sun to study lightand shade, and got a wrinkle over her nose trying after‘points of sight’, or whatever the squint-and-stringperformance is called.If ‘genius is eternal patience’, as Michelangelo affirms,Amy had some claim to the divine attribute, for shepersevered in spite of all obstacles, failures, anddiscouragements, firmly believing that in time she shoulddo something worthy to be called ‘high art’.She was learning, doing, and enjoying other things,meanwhile, for she had resolved to be an attractive andaccomplished woman, even if she never became a greatartist. Here she succeeded better, for she was one of thosehappily created beings who please without effort, makefriends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easilythat less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that suchare born under a lucky star. Everybody liked her, foramong her good gifts was tact. She had an instinctive sense450 of 861