1 But I don't think the little we should spend would do any good.
2 What the characters of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out.
3 Let Marmee think we are getting things for ourselves, and then surprise her.
4 He is well, and thinks he shall get through the cold season better than we feared.
5 We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.
6 "It's the best we've had yet," said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed his elbows.
7 You are the best actress we've got, and there'll be an end of everything if you quit the boards, said Jo.
8 We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another.
9 He will stay and do his work faithfully as long as he can, and we won't ask for him back a minute sooner than he can be spared.
10 We used to be faithful about it, but since Father went away and all this war trouble unsettled us, we have neglected many things.
11 I do think The Witches Curse, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try Macbeth, if we only had a trapdoor for Banquo.
12 A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.
13 I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top.
14 Let's each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it, cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.
15 I'll help you with the hard words, and they'll explain things if we don't understand, whispered Beth, very much impressed by the pretty books and her sisters' example.
16 Girls," said Meg seriously, looking from the tumbled head beside her to the two little night-capped ones in the room beyond, "Mother wants us to read and love and mind these books, and we must begin at once.
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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