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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>resignation, which were confided to her in their weeklyconferences. But there came a time when Laurie ceased toworship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one allabsorbingpassion, and indulged occasionally in Byronicfits of gloom. Then he avoided the tender subjectaltogether, wrote philosophical notes to Jo, turnedstudious, and gave out that he was going to ‘dig’,intending to graduate in a blaze of glory. This suited theyoung lady better than twilight confidences, tenderpressures of the hand, and eloquent glances of the eye, forwith Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and shepreferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because whentired of them, the former could be shut up in the tinkitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.Things were in this state when the grand discovery wasmade, and Jo watched Laurie that night as she had neverdone before. If she had not got the new idea into herhead, she would have seen nothing unusual in the fact thatBeth was very quiet, and Laurie very kind to her. Buthaving given the rein to her lively fancy, it galloped awaywith her at a great pace, and common sense, being ratherweakened by a long course or romance writing, did notcome to the rescue. As usual Beth lay on the sofa andLaurie sat in a low chair close by, amusing her with all569 of 861

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