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1 I dare not tell your parents yet, but I think they would consent if they knew that we adored one another.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
2 And no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given to them to train.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
3 "He's a born Weller," laughed Jo, as her parent gathered himself up, and her nephew tried to stand on his head, as the only mode of expressing his satisfaction that school was over.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
4 Anything you say, replies the shortsighted parent, preparing herself to sing, The Three Little Kittens half a dozen times over, or to take her family to Buy a penny bun, regardless of wind or limb.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
5 For the parents who had taught one child to meet death without fear, were trying now to teach another to accept life without despondency or distrust, and to use its beautiful opportunities with gratitude and power.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
6 Believing that they could not begin too early to cultivate energy, industry, and independence, their parents consented, and both fell to work with the hearty good will which in spite of all obstacles is sure to succeed at last.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER FOUR
7 She wondered, and was thankful also, that her parents did not seem to see what she saw, and during the quiet weeks when the shadows grew so plain to her, she said nothing of it to those at home, believing that it would tell itself when Beth came back no better.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
8 The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's, and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott ContextHighlight In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR