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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>An enthusiastic welcome from three big boys andseveral pretty children speedily soothed her ruffledfeelings, and leaving Amy to entertain the hostess and Mr.Tudor, who happened to be calling likewise, Jo devotedherself to the young folks and found the change refreshing.She listened to college stories with deep interest, caressedpointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartilythat ‘Tom Brown was a brick,’ regardless of the improperform of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to histurtle tank, she went with an alacrity which causedMamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settledthe cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filialhugs, bearlike but affectionate, and dearer to her than themost faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspiredFrenchwoman.Leaving her sister to her own devices, Amy proceededto enjoy herself to her heart’s content. Mr. Tudor’s unclehad married an English lady who was third cousin to aliving lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with greatrespect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding,she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts thebest of us—that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faithin kings which set the most democratic nation under thesun in ferment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired516 of 861

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