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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>the romance from the daily parting, when her husbandfollowed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, ‘Shall I sendsome veal or mutton for dinner, darling?’ The little houseceased to be a glorified bower, but it became a home, andthe young couple soon felt that it was a change for thebetter. At first they played keep-house, and frolicked overit like children. Then John took steadily to business,feeling the cares of the head of a family upon hisshoulders, and Meg laid by her cambric wrappers, put on abig apron, and fell to work, as before said, with moreenergy than discretion.While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs.Cornelius’s Receipt Book as if it were a mathematicalexercise, working out the problems with patience andcare. Sometimes her family were invited in to help eat upa too bounteous feast of successes, or Lotty would beprivately dispatched with a batch of failures, which wereto be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachsof the little Hummels. An evening with John over theaccount books usually produced a temporary lull in theculinary enthusiasm, and a frugal fit would ensue, duringwhich the poor man was put through a course of breadpudding, hash, and warmed-over coffee, which tried hissoul, although he bore it with praiseworthy fortitude.479 of 861

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