Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

see in his eyes when they rested on her. "Good evening, Apollo!" she answered, smiling back at ...

beamed upon the world, as if his master's name crowned him with a golden halo. A stout Frenchman, who kn ...

was all the satisfaction she got, however. The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, ...

when the music stopped, he wiped the drops from his brow, and beamed upon his fellow men like a French ...

now, and felt an irrestible desire to trample on him, as girls have a delightful way of doing when l ...

zest, but the young matrons usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a seclusion ...

did what other paternal exiles do—tried to get a little comfort elsewhere. Scott had married and gone to ho ...

till her mother found her in tears one day, and insisted on knowing what the matter was, for Meg's droo ...

"You have only made the mistake that most young wives make—forgotten your duty to your husband i ...

you have been to yours. Show me how, I'll do anything you say." "You always were my docile daught ...

to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his t ...

"Only you, dear." "Is it a birthday, anniversary, or anything?" "No, I'm tired of being dowdy, so I dr ...

nursery. Nor was he disappointed, for that shortsighted woman actually gave him a lump of sugar, tucked h ...

devoted himself to roaring at the top of his voice. This vocal exercise usually conquered Meg, but John sat ...

then go and set Meg's heart at rest," thought John, creeping to the bedside, hoping to find his rebellious ...

interest which his harangue had failed to waken. "She is trying to like politics for my sake, so I'll ...

rule, for accurate, steadfast John brought order and obedience into Babydom, while Meg recovered her ...

This household happiness did not come all at once, but John and Meg had found the key to it, and each year ...

but just let himself drift along as comfortably as possible, trying to forget, and feeling that all women owed ...

colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly cut grass passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline ...