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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>eBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.‘Use the chicken then, the toughness won’t matter in asalad,’ advised his wife.‘Hannah left it on the kitchen table a minute, and thekittens got at it. I’m very sorry, amy,’ added Beth, whowas still a patroness of cats.‘Then I must have a lobster, for tongue alone won’tdo,’ said Amy decidedly.‘Shall I rush into town and demand one?’ asked Jo,with the magnanimity of a martyr.‘You’d come bringing it home under your arm withoutany paper, just to try me. I’ll go myself,’ answered Amy,whose temper was beginning to fail.Shrouded in a thick veil and armed with a genteeltraveling basket, she departed, feeling that a cool drivewould soothe her ruffled spirit and fit her for the labors ofthe day. After some delay, the object of her desire wasprocured, likewise a bottle of dressing to prevent furtherloss of time at home, and off she drove again, well pleasedwith her own forethought.As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, asleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled thetedium of the way by trying to find out where all hermoney had gone to. So busy was she with her card full ofrefractory figures that she did not observe a newcomer,459 of 861

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