Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy • Paragraph 984
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Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away; but tears were an unmanly weakness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really _couldn't_ quite forgive yet. So she winked hard, shook her head, and said, gruffly because Amy was listening,--