1 Take it like a man, and don't do anything rash, for God's sake.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE 2 "If God spares Beth, I never will complain again," whispered Meg earnestly.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 3 God was not a blind force, and immortality was not a pretty fable, but a blessed fact.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 4 "If god spares Beth, I'll try to love and serve Him all my life," answered Jo, with equal fervor.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 5 That would be time enough, please God, but Laurie must write to her often, and not let her feel lonely, homesick or anxious.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE 6 God won't be so cruel as to take you from me, cried poor Jo rebelliously, for her spirit was far less piously submissive than Beth's.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX 7 Sweets to the sweet, mannling, and Mr. Bhaer offered Jo some, with a look that made her wonder if chocolate was not the nectar drunk by the gods.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE 8 To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER NINE 9 I've got them all, thank God, and am the happiest woman in the world, and Meg laid her hand on her tall boy's head, with a face full of tender and devout content.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN 10 I pray he may, and try to be all he believes me, for I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO 11 All day Jo and Meg hovered over her, watching, waiting, hoping, and trusting in God and Mother, and all day the snow fell, the bitter wind raged, and the hours dragged slowly by.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 12 On the table she laid her little testament and hymnbook, kept a vase always full of the best flowers Laurie brought her, and came every day to 'sit alone' thinking good thoughts, and praying the dear God to preserve her sister.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER NINETEEN 13 Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX 14 The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.'
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 15 Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE 16 It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers, on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 17 But a bird sang blithely on a budding bough, close by, the snowdrops blossomed freshly at the window, and the spring sunshine streamed in like a benediction over the placid face upon the pillow, a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY 18 So the spring days came and went, the sky grew clearer, the earth greener, the flowers were up fairly early, and the birds came back in time to say goodbye to Beth, who, like a tired but trustful child, clung to the hands that had led her all her life, as Father and Mother guided her tenderly through the Valley of the Shadow, and gave her up to God.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY 19 If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, "By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell," his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative young stork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, "In my little belly," the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE