1 We invited him to our party, but he didn't come.
2 We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes.
3 We ought to have our roll of directions, like Christian.
4 Get me my rubbers, and put these slippers with our things.
5 I'm sure our pops look like silk, and they are nice enough for us.
6 We've each got a dollar, and the army wouldn't be much helped by our giving that.
7 We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.
8 Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything.
9 Meg and I would make you laugh over our funny stage properties, and we'd have jolly times.
10 Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does.
11 You can't sit with us, for our seats are reserved, and you mustn't sit alone, so Laurie will give you his place, and that will spoil our pleasure.
12 Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that, and to be bidden to "run away, dear" is still more trying to us.
13 Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.
14 "That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it," said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels.
15 Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.
16 "Oh, dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on," sighed Meg the morning after the party, for now the holidays were over, the week of merrymaking did not fit her for going on easily with the task she never liked.
17 Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, "You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army."
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