1 Unfortunately, John didn't come, not seeing the matter in that light.
2 I feel restless and anxious to be seeing, doing, and learning more than I am.
3 Miss Norton had the entree into most society, which Jo would have had no chance of seeing but for her.
4 He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
5 Jo can't prevent my seeing her, and I shall stay and do it as long as I like, interrupted Laurie in a defiant tone.
6 So I've been turning the matter over in my mind the last week, for it was impossible to help seeing that Fred liked me.
7 There was no need of any words when they got home, for Father and Mother saw plainly now what they had prayed to be saved from seeing.
8 So I let him have the two stories, and today this was sent to me, and Laurie caught me with it and insisted on seeing it, so I let him.
9 He had fumed inwardly during the feast, but when the flurry was over and he strolled home after seeing Scott off, a milder mood came over him.
10 The boy sat down again and looked at his pumps, till Jo said, trying to be polite and easy, "I think I've had the pleasure of seeing you before."
11 I heard one of the young men tell another that he knew I'd been an actress, in fact, he thought he remembered seeing me at one of the minor theaters.
12 For a minute her eyes were too dim for seeing, and when they cleared, Beth was looking up at her so tenderly that there was hardly any need for her to say, "Jo, dear, I'm glad you know it."
13 "See the cunning brackets to hold candles, and the nice green silk, puckered up, with a gold rose in the middle, and the pretty rack and stool, all complete," added Meg, opening the instrument and displaying its beauties.
14 Laurie went by in the afternoon, and seeing Meg at the window, seemed suddenly possessed with a melodramatic fit, for he fell down on one knee in the snow, beat his breast, tore his hair, and clasped his hands imploringly, as if begging some boon.
15 She also fancied, having set her heart upon seeing it, that she saw a certain increase of gentleness in Laurie's manner, that he dropped his voice now and then, laughed less than usual, was a little absent-minded, and settled the afghan over Beth's feet with an assiduity that was really almost tender.
16 Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret, but Jo did both, and was just beginning to give up all hope of ever seeing her manuscript again, when a letter arrived which almost took her breath away, for on opening it, a check for a hundred dollars fell into her lap.
17 With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread.
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