I'll tell you one of them, Marmee," she began, as they sat along together.

"I want to go away somewhere this winter for a change." "Why, Jo ?" and her mother looked up quickly, as if the words suggested a double meaning.
With her eyes on her work Jo answered soberly, "I want something new.
I feel restless and anxious to be seeing, doing, and learning more than I am.

I brood too much over my own small affairs, and need stirring up, so as I can be spared this winter, I'd like to hop a little way and try my wings." "Where will you hop ?" "To New York.

I had a bright idea yesterday, and this is it.

You know Mrs.Kirke wrote to you for some respectable young person to teach her children and sew.