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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>made myself respectable and tried to slip in behind Mrs.Kirke, but as she is short and I’m tall, my efforts atconcealment were rather a failure. She gave me a seat byher, and after my face cooled off, I plucked up courageand looked about me. The long table was full, andevery— one intent on getting their dinner, the gentlemenespecially, who seemed to be eating on time, for theybolted in every sense of the word, vanishing as soon asthey were done. There was the usual assortment of youngmen absorbed in themselves, young couples absorbed ineach other, married ladies in their babies, and oldgentlemen in politics. I don’t think I shall care to havemuch to do with any of them, except one sweetfacedmaiden lady, who looks as if she had something in her.Cast away at the very bottom of the table was theProfessor, shouting answers to the questions of a veryinquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talkingphilosophy with a Frenchman on the other. If Amy hadbeen here, she’d have turned her back on him foreverbecause, sad to relate, he had a great appetite, andshoveled in his dinner in a manner which would havehorrified ‘her ladyship’. I didn’t mind, for I like ‘to seefolks eat with a relish’, as Hannah says, and the poor man590 of 861

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