Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

pudding you promised?" cried John, rushing to the larder. "I hadn't time to cook anything. I meant to dine ...

carried it off as a good joke with Scott, excused his little wife as well as he could, and played the h ...

maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests. "John is a good man, bu ...

Mr. Scott told John he was a lucky fellow, and shook his head over the hardships of bachelorhood all th ...

take it. John always said what was his was hers, but would he think it right to spend not only the p ...

dreadfully extravagant lately. I go about so much I must have things, you know, and Sallie advised my gettin ...

contented, but it is hard, and I'm tired of being poor." The last words were spoken so low she thought he d ...

the morning by a very happy husband, and taken off at night by a most devoted little wife. So the year ...

with an appealing look that was comically piteous, he added, "Take 'em quick, somebody! I'm going to l ...

"He's to be named John Laurence, and the girl Margaret, after mother and grandmother. We shall call ...

yourself on keeping promises, so be honorable, come and do your duty, and then be at peace for another six ...

Do your hair the pretty way, and put the pink rose in your bonnet. It's becoming, and you look t ...

Hannah said, as she hung out of the upper window to watch them. "Now, Jo dear, the Chesters consider th ...

is!" Amy felt anxious, as well she might, for when Jo turned freakish there was no knowing where she wou ...

bring the horse to the saddle, so she took the saddle to the horse. My dear creature, she actually rowed it ...

As Miss Lamb had 'enjoyed' the story, this speech was not exactly grateful or complimentary. The minute it w ...

speedily soothed her ruffled feelings, and leaving Amy to entertain the hostess and Mr. Tudor, who happened to be ...

"Why do you always avoid Mr. Tudor?" asked Amy, wisely refraining from any comment upon Jo's dilapidated app ...

confer a great favor, and let the small ones slip, but they tell best in the end, I fancy." Amy smiled ...

"I do like them, and I shall be one if I can, for in spite of the laughing the world would never ...