And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…
…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, o...
…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…
…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointm...
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
