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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>CHAPTER FORTYWhen the first bitterness was over, the family acceptedthe inevitable, and tried to bear it cheerfully, helping oneanother by the increased affection which comes to bindhouseholds tenderly together in times of trouble. They putaway their grief, and each did his or her part towardmaking that last year a happy one.The pleasantest room in the house was set apart forBeth, and in it was gathered everything that she mostloved, flowers, pictures, her piano, the little worktable,and the beloved pussies. Father’s best books found theirway there, Mother’s easy chair, Jo’s desk, Amy’s finestsketches, and every day Meg brought her babies on aloving pilgrimage, to make sunshine for Aunty Beth. Johnquietly set apart a little sum, that he might enjoy thepleasure of keeping the invalid supplied with the fruit sheloved and longed for. Old Hannah never wearied ofconcocting dainty dishes to tempt a capricious appetite,dropping tears as she worked, and from across the seacame little gifts and cheerful letters, seeming to bringbreaths of warmth and fragrance from lands that know nowinter.727 of 861

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