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Marmee: As are we all, dear mouse.
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Ah! Here's another present for the March family! |
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You can't know how hard it is for me to give up Meg. |
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You don't give her up. You only go halves. |
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(shakes her head) I've lost my dearest friend. |
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You've got me. I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. |
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I know you will, and I'm ever so much obliged. |
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We'll have capital times. I shall go through college before long, and then we'll go abroad. Would that console you? |
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I rather think it would. But there's no knowing what may happen in three years. |
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That's true. Don't you wish you could take a look forward and see where we shall all be then? |
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I think not, for I might see something sad, and everyone looks so happy now, I don't believe they could be much improved. Oh, Laurie, it can never be the same again! |
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(picks up a notebook and reads) "From one of the windows of the chateau tower, a boy's face looked out, full of eager longing-(grins). Was that me? |
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(reading on) 'I'll away to Yvonne', he declared. 'She can tell better tales than any in this weary book.' And that's you. |
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