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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>eBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were allyours, and John had nothing to do but support them. I’veseen it for some weeks, but have not spoken, feeling sureit would come right in time.’‘I’m afraid it won’t. If I ask him to stay, he’ll think I’mjealous, and I wouldn’t insult him by such an idea. Hedoesn’t see that I want him, and I don’t know how to tellhim without words.’‘Make it so pleasant he won’t want to go away. Mydear, he’s longing for his little home, but it isn’t homewithout you, and you are always in the nursery.’‘Oughtn’t I to be there?’‘Not all the time, too much confinement makes younervous, and then you are unfitted for everything. Besides,you owe something to John as well as to the babies. Don’tneglect husband for children, don’t shut him out of thenursery, but teach him how to help in it. His place is thereas well as yours, and the children need him. Let him feelthat he has a part to do, and he will do it gladly andfaithfully, and it will be better for you all.’‘You really think so, Mother?’‘I know it, Meg, for I’ve tried it, and I seldom giveadvice unless I’ve proved its practicability. When you andJo were little, I went on just as you are, feeling as if I687 of 861

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