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1  Just think, he's given you her piano.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
2  But the piano suffers for want of use.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
3  Since I had my little piano, I am perfectly satisfied.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
4  Beth went to the piano and played the father's favorite hymn.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
5  She grieves about Father, and looks sober except when she is at her little piano.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
6  So Beth tried it, and everyone pronounced it the most remarkable piano ever heard.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
7  How blithely she sang that evening, and how they all laughed at her because she woke Amy in the night by playing the piano on her face in her sleep.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
8  They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, but Jo's attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
9  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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
10  No one but Beth could get much music out of the old piano, but she had a way of softly touching the yellow keys and making a pleasant accompaniment to the simple songs they sang.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
11  Laurie haunted the house like a restless ghost, and Mr. Laurence locked the grand piano, because he could not bear to be reminded of the young neighbor who used to make the twilight pleasant for him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
12  Beth had her troubles as well as the others, and not being an angel but a very human little girl, she often 'wept a little weep' as Jo said, because she couldn't take music lessons and have a fine piano.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
13  Mrs. March wanted to talk of her father with the old man who had not forgotten him, Meg longed to walk in the conservatory, Beth sighed for the grand piano, and Amy was eager to see the fine pictures and statues.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
14  So, sitting at the dear little piano, Beth softly touched the keys, and in the sweet voice they had never thought to hear again, sang to her own accompaniment the quaint hymn, which was a singularly fitting song for her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
15  To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
16  Quite by accident, of course, some pretty, easy music lay on the piano, and with trembling fingers and frequent stops to listen and look about, Beth at last touched the great instrument, and straightway forgot her fear, herself, and everything else but the unspeakable delight which the music gave her, for it was like the voice of a beloved friend.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
17  But there came a time when during the fever fits she began to talk in a hoarse, broken voice, to play on the coverlet as if on her beloved little piano, and try to sing with a throat so swollen that there was no music left, a time when she did not know the familiar faces around her, but addressed them by wrong names, and called imploringly for her mother.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
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