Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy • Paragraph 2219
Stage 1 of 6

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"Well, I won't; but I hate to see things going all criss-cross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats,--more's the pity!"