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Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.
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mort,
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I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'."
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I'd rather stay here, thank you." "Well, you can't, there isn't room. Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental."
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flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. Meg is the turtledove,
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taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind.
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AMY'S LECTURE DID Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it.
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but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
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As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.
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I haven't got any mother, you know.
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Mi piacciono le espressioni vigorose che dicano qualcosa - replico Jo.
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Una persona istruita e educata si riconosce subito dal suo modo di fare e di parlare, percio non c'e bisogno di farne pompa - disse la signora March.
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despairing
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the mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence.
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for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
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its head, she tied on a neat little cap, and as both arms and legs were gone, she hid these deficiencies by folding it in a blanket and devoting her best bed to this chronic invalid. If anyone had known the care lavished on that dolly, I think it would have touched their hearts, even while they laughed. She brought it bits of bouquets, she read to it, took it out to breathe fresh air, hidden under her coat, she sang it lullabies and never w..
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when I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman.
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laughter. "Glad to find you so merry, my girls," said a cheery"
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girls," said a cheery voice at the door, and actors and audience"
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cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter.
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stage-struck!" cried Meg, and"
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There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum.
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Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner."
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Is it not meningitis?
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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