Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little WomeneBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.‘That’s the right spirit, my dear. A kiss for a blow isalways best, though it’s not very easy to give it sometimes,’said her mother, with the air of one who had learned thedifference between preaching and practicing.In spite of various very natural temptations to resentand retaliate, Amy adhered to her resolution all the nextday, bent on conquering her enemy by kindness. Shebegan well, thanks to a silent reminder that came to herunexpectedly, but most opportunely. As she arranged hertable that morning, while the little girls were in theanteroom filling the baskets, she took up her petproduction, a little book, the antique cover of which herfather had found among his treasures, and in which onleaves of vellum she had beautifully illuminated differenttexts. As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices withvery pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse thatmade her stop and think. Framed in a brilliant scrollworkof scarlet, blue and gold, with little spirits of good willhelping one another up and down among the thorns andflowers, were the words, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor asthyself.’‘I ought, but I don’t,’ thought Amy, as her eye wentfrom the bright page to May’s discontented face behindthe big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty531 of 861