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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>‘How nicely you do it! Let me see...you said, ‘Who isthe young lady in the pretty slippers’, didn’t you?’‘Oui, mademoiselle.’‘It’s my sister Margaret, and you knew it was! Do youthink she is pretty?’‘Yes, she makes me think of the German girls, shelooks so fresh and quiet, and dances like a lady.’Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise ofher sister, and stored it up to repeat to Meg. Both peepedand critisized and chatted till they felt like oldacquaintances. Laurie’s bashfulness soon wore off, for Jo’sgentlemanly demeanor amused and set him at his ease, andJo was her merry self again, because her dress wasforgotten and nobody lifted their eyebrows at her. Sheliked the ‘Laurence boy’ better than ever and took severalgood looks at him, so that she might describe him to thegirls, for they had no brothers, very few male cousins, andboys were almost unknown creatures to them.‘Curly black hair, brown skin, big black eyes,handsome nose, fine teeth, small hands and feet, taller thanI am, very polite, for a boy, and altogether jolly. Wonderhow old he is?’49 of 861

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