Lulu's Library Series, Volume 3

Оглавление

Louisa May Alcott. Lulu's Library Series, Volume 3

CONTENTS:

I. RECOLLECTIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD

II. A CHRISTMAS TURKEY, AND HOW IT CAME

III. THE SILVER PARTY

IV. THE BLIND LARK

V. MUSIC AND MACARONI

VI. THE LITTLE RED PURSE

VII. SOPHIE'S SECRET

VIII. DOLLY'S BEDSTEAD

IX. TRUDEL'S SIEGE

Отрывок из книги

Lulu's Library

Volume 3

.....

It was good training for memory and fingers, for we recited pages without a fault, and made every sort of property from a harp to a fairy's spangled wings. Later we acted Shakespeare; and Hamlet was my favorite hero, played with a gloomy glare and a tragic stalk which I have never seen surpassed.

But we were now beginning to play our parts on a real stage, and to know something of the pathetic side of life, with its hard facts, irksome duties, many temptations, and the daily sacrifice of self. Fortunately we had the truest, tenderest of guides and guards, and so learned the sweet uses of adversity, the value of honest work, the beautiful law of compensation which gives more than it takes, and the real significance of life.

.....