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Little Women

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
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My rooms are always open to you, and your own shall be as comfortable as I can make it.

There are some pleasant people in the house if you feel sociable, and your evenings are always free.

Come to me if anything goes wrong, and be as happy as you can.
There's the tea bell, I must run and change my cap." And off she bustled, leaving me to settle myself in my new nest.
As I went downstairs soon after, I saw something I liked.

The flights are very long in this tall house, and as I stood waiting at the head of the third one for a little servant girl to lumber up, I saw a gentleman come along behind her, take the heavy hod of coal out of her hand, carry it all the way up, put it down at a door near by, and walk away, saying, with a kind nod and a foreign accent, "It goes better so.

The little back is too young to haf such heaviness." Wasn't it good of him?
I like such things, for as Father says, trifles show character.


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