But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," 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.