Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little WomeneBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.said softly as if to herself, ‘How strong and well and happythat dear boy looks.’‘Hum!’ said Jo, still intent upon her sister’s face, for thebright color faded as quickly as it came, the smilevanished, and presently a tear lay shining on the windowledge. Beth whisked it off, and in her half-averted faceread a tender sorrow that made her own eyes fill. Fearingto betray herself, she slipped away, murmuring somethingabout needing more paper.‘Mercy on me, Beth loves Laurie!’ she said, sittingdown in her own room, pale with the shock of thediscovery which she believed she had just made. ‘I neverdreamed of such a thing. What will Mother say? I wonderif her...’ there Jo stopped and turned scarlet with a suddenthought. ‘If he shouldn’t love back again, how dreadful itwould be. He must. I’ll make him!’ And she shook herhead threateningly at the picture of the mischievouslookingboy laughing at her from the wall. ‘Oh dear, weare growing up with a vengeance. Here’s Meg marriedand a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth inlove. I’m the only one that has sense enough to keep outof mischief.’ Jo thought intently for a minute with hereyes fixed on the picture, then she smoothed out herwrinkled forehead and said, with a decided nod at the face567 of 861