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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>eBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.CHAPTER THIRTY-SIXWhen Jo came home that spring, she had been struckwith the change in Beth. No one spoke of it or seemedaware of it, for it had come too gradually to startle thosewho saw her daily, but to eyes sharpened by absence, itwas very plain and a heavy weight fell on Jo’s heart as shesaw her sister’s face. It was no paler and but littler thinnerthan in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparentlook about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refinedaway, and the immortal shining through the frail fleshwith an indescribably pathetic beauty. Jo saw and felt it,but said nothing at the time, and soon the first impressionlost much of its power, for Beth seemed happy, no oneappeared to doubt that she was better, and presently inother cares Jo fora time forgot her fear.But when Laurie was gone, and peace prevailed again,the vague anxiety returned and haunted her. She hadconfessed her sins and been forgiven, but when sheshowed her savings and proposed a mountain trip, Bethhad thanked her heartily, but begged not to go so far awayfrom home. Another little visit to the seashore would suither better, and as Grandma could not be prevailed upon to651 of 861

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