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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>eBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.allowed to do something toward their own support, atleast. Believing that they could not begin too early tocultivate energy, industry, and independence, their parentsconsented, and both fell to work with the hearty good willwhich in spite of all obstacles is sure to succeed at last.Margaret found a place as nursery governess and feltrich with her small salary. As she said, she was ‘fond ofluxury’, and her chief trouble was poverty. She found itharder to bear than the others because she couldremember a time when home was beautiful, life full ofease and pleasure, and want of any kind unknown. Shetried not to be envious or discontented, but it was verynatural that the young girl should long for pretty things,gay friends, accomplishments, and a happy life. At theKings’ she daily saw all she wanted, for the children’s oldersisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses ofdainty ball dresses and bouquets, heard lively gossip abouttheaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings ofall kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which wouldhave been so precious to her. Poor Meg seldomcomplained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bittertoward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned toknow how rich she was in the blessings which alone canmake life happy.63 of 861

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