Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womenof the desk among bills, passports, and business documentsof various kinds were several of Jo’s letters, and in anothercompartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tiedup with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive ofthe little dead roses put away inside. with a half-repentant,half-amused expression, Laurie gathered up all Jo’s letters,smoothed, folded, and put them neatly into a small drawerof the desk, stood a minute turning the ring thoughtfullyon his finger, then slowly drew it off, laid it with theletters, locked the drawer, and went out to hear HighMass at Saint Stefan’s, feeling as if there had been afuneral, and though not overwhelmed with affliction, thisseemed a more proper way to spend the rest of the daythan in writing letters to charming young ladies.The letter went very soon, however, and was promptlyanswered, for Amy was homesick, and confessed it in themost delightfully confiding manner. The correspondenceflourished famously, and letters flew to and fro withunfailing regularity all through the early spring. Laurie soldhis busts, made allumettes of his opera, and went back toParis, hoping somebody would arrive before long. Hewanted desperately to go to Nice, but would not till hewas asked, and Amy would not ask him, for just then she745 of 861