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Louisa May Alcott

An Old-Fashioned Girl

  • Angelina Annabelhas quoted10 months ago
    "He 's an awful boy, my dear; and if you have anything to do with him, he 'll torment you to death. Boys are all horrid; but he 's the horridest one I ever saw."
  • Angelina Annabelhas quoted10 months ago
    "She is n't a bit of a young lady, thank goodness! Fan did n't tell me she was pretty. Don't look like city girls, nor act like 'em, neither,"
  • Angelina Annabelhas quoted10 months ago
    "If I was the President, I 'd make a law to shut up all boys till they were grown; for they certainly are the most provoking toads in the world,"
  • Angelina Annabelhas quoted10 months ago
    Boys of fourteen are apt to think so, and perhaps it is a wise arrangement; for, being fond of turning somersaults, they have an opportunity of indulging in a good one, metaphorically speaking, when, three or four years later, they become the abject slaves of "those bothering girls."
  • b8587856926has quoted2 years ago
    dodged and chuckled
  • b8587856926has quoted2 years ago
    get into scrapes
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    to propitiate her tormentor
  • b8587856926has quoted2 years ago
    utterly quenched him.
  • b8587856926has quoted2 years ago
    ndescension of their sex;
  • b8587856926has quoted2 years ago
    exulted over them visibly.
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