I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them.
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
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I hate ordinary people!
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole ear,' said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.'That's the reason I was born in it,' observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.'If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month,' said Beth, who took a hopeful view of everything, even November.
Never take advice!
Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply. 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.
She'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
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