Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Not a very splendid show, but there was a great deal of love done up in the few little bundles, ...

employed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable socie ...

Spirit, answer now my song! A soft strain of music sounded, and then at the back of the cave appeared ...

wonderful presence of mind, Don Pedro, the cruel sire, rushed in, dragged out his daughter, with a hasty ...

but cannot agree, and Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters wi ...

head? We don't know him!" exclaimed Meg. "Hannah told one of his servants about your breakfast party. ...

"They are lovely. But Beth's roses are sweeter to me," said Mrs. March, smelling the half-dead posy in h ...

good as new, but I forgot the burn and the tear in mine. Whatever shall I do? The burn shows badl ...

blithely as she did up her one real lace frill, while Jo finished her story, her four apples, and had a gam ...

After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last, and by the united exertions of the entire family Jo's ...

informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them. Mrs. Gardiner, a stately old lady, gr ...

"We did have such a good time over your nice Christmas present." "Grandpa sent it." "But you p ...

Laurie didn't seem to know where to begin, but Jo's eager questions soon set him going, and he told ...

It was on the tip of Jo's tongue to ask, but she checked herself in time and, with unusual tact, tried to ...

"I can't, for I told Meg I wouldn't, because..." There Jo stopped, and looked undecided whether to tell o ...

"I'll go." "No, indeed! It's past nine, and dark as Egypt. I can't stop here, for the house is full. ...

table, brought a second installment of coffee and ice for Jo, and was so obliging that even particular Meg pronoun ...

delicious redowa with him." "He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step. Laurie and I ...

"I wish it was Christmas or New Year's all the time. Wouldn't it be fun?" answered Jo, yawning dismally. "We ...

was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate. "Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats ...