1 I'm not Meg tonight, I'm 'a doll' who does all sorts of crazy things.
2 I'll do my lessons every day, and not spend so much time with my music and dolls.
3 She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time.
4 Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls.
5 There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still and loved her pets as well as ever.
6 On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an errand, and give poor Joanna, the invalid doll, her daily exercise.
7 "I haven't heard Frank laugh so much for ever so long," said Grace to Amy, as they sat discussing dolls and making tea sets out of the acorn cups.
8 She felt so ill one day that she told Jo she wanted to give her piano to Meg, her cats to you, and the poor old doll to Jo, who would love it for her sake.
9 The snow was light, and with her broom she soon swept a path all round the garden, for Beth to walk in when the sun came out and the invalid dolls needed air.
10 Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll's sewing, which had fallen sadly behind-hand.
11 It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess.
12 A lace handkerchief, a plumy fan, and a bouquet in a shoulder holder finished her off, and Miss Belle surveyed her with the satisfaction of a little girl with a newly dressed doll.
13 The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger sisters into her keeping and watched over her in her own way, 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.