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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>and so humble that I don’t seem to be the same girl I was.I never knew how good and generous and tender he wastill now, for he lets me read his heart, and I find it full ofnoble impulses and hopes and purposes, and am so proudto know it’s mine. He says he feels as if he ‘could make aprosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lotsof love for ballast’. I pray he may, and try to be all hebelieves me, for I love my gallant captain with all my heartand soul and might, and never will desert him, while Godlets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how muchlike heaven this world could be, when two people loveand live for one another!’‘And that’s our cool, reserved, and worldly Amy!Truly, love does work miracles. How very, very happythey must be!’ And Jo laid the rustling sheets together witha careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovelyromance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes,and he finds himself alone in the workaday world again.By-and-by Jo roamed away upstairs, for it was rainy,and she could not walk. A restless spirit possessed her, andthe old feeling came again, not bitter as it once was, but asorrowfully patient wonder why one sister should have allshe asked, the other nothing. It was not true, she knewthat and tried to put it away, but the natural craving for769 of 861

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