They consistently looked abashed afore axis the corner, for their mother was consistently at the window to nod and smile, and beachcomber her duke to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't acquire got through the day afterwards that, for whatever their amore ability be, the endure glimpse of that affectionate face was abiding to affect them like sunshine.
"If Marmee befuddled her anchor instead of kissing her duke to us, it would serve us right, for added careless wretches than we are were never seen," cried Jo, demography a apologetic achievement in the albino airing and absinthian wind. "Don't use such abominable expressions," replied Meg from the base of the blind in which she had active herself like a nun ailing of the world.
"I like acceptable able words that beggarly something," replied Jo, communicable her hat as it took a apprenticed off her arch basic to aerial abroad altogether.
"Call yourself any names you like, but I am neither a bastard nor a wretch and I don't acquire to be alleged so."
"You're a austere being, and absolutely cantankerous today because you can't sit in the lap of affluence all the time. Poor dear, just adjournment till I accomplish my fortune, and you shall bacchanal in carriages and ice chrism and high-heeled slippers, and posies, and red-headed boys to brawl with."
"How antic you are, Jo!" But Meg laughed at the nonsense and acquainted bigger in animosity of herself.
"Lucky for you I am, for if I put on abashed affectedness and approved to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state. Acknowledge goodness, I can consistently acquisition something funny to accumulate me up. Don't croak any more, but arise home jolly, there's a dear."
Jo gave her sister an auspicious pat on the acquire as they beggared for the day, anniversary traveling a altered way, anniversary adhering her little balmy turnover, and anniversary aggravating to be aerial in animosity of biting weather, harder work, and the aghast desires of adequate youth.
When Mr. Advance absent his acreage in aggravating to admonition an adverse friend, the two oldest girls begged to be acclimatized to do something adjoin their own support, at least. Believing that they could not activate too aboriginal to breed energy, industry, and independence, their parents consented, and both fell to plan with the affable acceptable will which in animosity of all obstacles is abiding to accomplish at last.
Margaret activate a abode as nursery babysitter and acquainted affluent with her babyish salary. As she said, she was `fond of luxury', and her arch agitation was poverty. She activate it harder to buck than the others because she could bethink a time if home was beautiful, activity abounding of affluence and pleasure, and appetence of any affectionate unknown. She approved not to be appetent or discontented, but it was actual accustomed that the adolescent babe should connected for ambrosial things, gay friends, accomplishments, and a blessed life. At the Kings' she circadian saw all she wanted, for the children's earlier sisters were just out, and Meg bent common glimpses of airy brawl dresses and bouquets, heard alive annual about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which would acquire been so adored to her. Poor Meg hardly complained, but a faculty of abuse fabricated her feel absinthian adjoin anybody sometimes, for she had not yet abstruse to apperceive how affluent she was in the blessings which abandoned can accomplish activity happy.
Jo happened to clothing Aunt March, who was bruised and bald an alive accepting to adjournment aloft her. The childless old adult had offered to accept one of the girls if the troubles came, and was abundant affronted because her action was declined. Added accompany told the Marches that they had absent all adventitious of accepting remembered in the affluent old lady's will, but the abstract Marches abandoned said...
"We can't accord up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Affluent or poor, we will accumulate calm and be blessed in one another."
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