Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little WomenCHAPTER THIRTY-ONELondonDearest People, Here I really sit at a front window ofthe Bath Hotel, Piccadilly. It’s not a fashionable place, butUncle stopped here years ago, and won’t go anywhereelse. However, we don’t mean to stay long, so it’s no greatmatter. Oh, I can’t begin to tell you how I enjoy it all! Inever can, so I’ll only give you bits out of my notebook,for I’ve done nothing but sketch and scribble since Istarted.I sent a line from Halifax, when I felt pretty miserable,but after that I got on delightfully, seldom ill, on deck allday, with plenty of pleasant people to amuse me.Everyone was very kind to me, especially the officers.Don’t laugh, Jo, gentlemen really are very necessaryaboard ship, to hold on to, or to wait upon one, and asthey have nothing to do, it’s a mercy to make them useful,otherwise they would smoke themselves to death, I’mafraid.Aunt and Flo were poorly all the way, and liked to belet alone, so when I had done what I could for them, Iwent and enjoyed myself. Such walks on deck, such547 of 861