Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

"Really, truly, Jo?" He stopped short, and caught both her hands as he put his question with a look that ...

but good and kind, and the best friend I've got, next to you. Pray, don't fly into a passion. I ...

almost at her wit's end. "I won't be reasonable. I don't want to take what you call 'a sensible vie ...

"I know better!" broke in Laurie. "You think so now, but there'll come a time when you will car ...

"Yes, I will live and die for him, if he ever comes and makes me love him in spite of myself, and y ...

words to Jo disturbed him more than he would confess. When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite ...

"I don't intend to run away from a girl. Jo can't prevent my seeing her, and I shall stay and do it ...

"There is business in London that needs looking after. I meant you should attend to it, but I can do it b ...

Being an energetic individual, Mr. Laurence struck while the iron was hot, and before the blighted being rec ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX BETH'S SECRET When Jo came home that spring, she had been struck with the change in Bet ...

her hand to lift it up, there seemed something sacred in the silence, and she waited for Beth to speak. ...

"Oh, Beth, and you didn't tell me, didn't let me comfort and help you? How could you shut me out, bear ...

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to ...

eyes were full of sadness. A little gray-coated sand bird came tripping over the beach 'peeping ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen ...

woke up, and, waving his hat like a boy, he hurried forward to meet her. "Oh, Laurie, is it really ...

"That's a sociable arrangement," said Amy, missing something in Laurie's manner, though she couldn't tell ...

quite easy and gay. At Avigdor's she found the precious home letters and, giving the reins to Laurie, read ...

saw enough to satisfy and interest him, and carried away a pretty little picture of a bright-faced girl s ...

indulged in antique coiffures, statuesque attitudes, and classic draperies. But, dear heart, we all have our lit ...