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1  They needn't see or speak to anyone, but run in at any time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
2  I was right, but didn't speak as I ought, and he marched home, saying he wouldn't come again till I begged pardon.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
3  Here he rose, as if going, and Beth made up her mind to speak, for that last arrangement left nothing to be desired.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
4  Before she could speak, Annie had the cover off, and all were exclaiming at the lovely roses, heath, and fern within.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
5  Don't like him, he puts on airs, snubs his sisters, worries his father, and doesn't speak respectfully of his mother.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
6  Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked you to speak, Mama, said May, looking disconsolately at the empty spaces on her table.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
7  You haven't a bit of proper pride, and never will learn when to hold your tongue and when to speak, said Amy despairingly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
8  I only said I was too young to do anything about it yet, that I didn't wish to have secrets from you, and he must speak to father.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
9  You are young, Meg, but not too young to understand me, and mothers' lips are the fittest to speak of such things to girls like you.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
10  Laurie drew his hand across his eyes, but could not speak till he had subdued the choky feeling in his throat and steadied his lips.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
11  She said nothing, but Amy understood the look, and after a minute's pause, she added gravely, "I wanted to speak to you about this, but I forgot it."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
12  "My old white one again, if I can mend it fit to be seen, it got sadly torn last night," said Meg, trying to speak quite easily, but feeling very uncomfortable.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
13  He never goes with Flo, always gets on my side of the carriage, table, or promenade, looks sentimental when we are alone, and frowns at anyone else who ventures to speak to me.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
14  The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time, but happening to meet Jo at a friend's, something in her comical face and blunt manners struck the old lady's fancy, and she proposed to take her for a companion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  I know he wanted to speak, but I think, from something he once hinted, that he had promised his father not to do anything of the sort yet a while, for he is a rash boy, and the old gentleman dreads a foreign daughter-in-law.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
16  He looks as if he'd like to know us but he's bashful, and Meg is so prim she won't let me speak to him when we pass, said Jo, as the plates went round, and the ice began to melt out of sight, with ohs and ahs of satisfaction.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
17  It was impossible to help laughing at the funny conflict between Laurie's chivalrous reluctance to speak ill of womankind, and his very natural dislike of the unfeminine folly of which fashionable society showed him many samples.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
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