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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO‘Jo, I’m anxious about Beth.’‘Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since thebabies came.’‘It’s not her health that troubles me now, it’s her spirits.I’m sure there is something on her mind, and I want youto discover what it is.’‘What makes you think so, Mother?’‘She sits alone a good deal, and doesn’t talk to herfather as much as she used. I found her crying over thebabies the other day. When she sings, the songs are alwayssad ones, and now and then I see a look in her face that Idon’t understand. This isn’t like Beth, and it worries me.’‘Have you asked her about it?’‘I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded myquestions or looked so distressed that I stopped. I neverforce my children’s confidence, and I seldom have to waitfor long.’Mrs. March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the faceopposite seemed quite unconscious of any secretdisquietude but Beth’s, and after sewing thoughtfully for aminute, Jo said, ‘I think she is growing up, and so begins564 of 861

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