Хорошие жёны / Good wives. Уровень 3

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт. Хорошие жёны / Good wives. Уровень 3

Louisa May Alcott. Good Wives

Gossip

The First Wedding

Artistic Attempts[9]

Literary Lessons

Domestic Experiences

Calls

Consequences

Our Foreign Correspondent

Tender Troubles

Jo’s Journal

Friend

Heartache

Beth’s Secret

New Impressions

On the Shelf

Lazy Laurence

The Valley of the Shadow

My Beth

Learning To Forget

All Alone

Surprises

My Lord And Lady

Daisy and Demi

Under the Umbrella

In the Garret

Harvest Time

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The war is over. Mr. March was safely at home, busy with his books and the small parish. Poverty and the strict integrity shut him out from[1] the more worldly successes, but attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees. Earnest young men found the gray-headed scholar as young at heart as they. Sinners told their sins to the pure-hearted old man and were both rebuked and saved.

Five energetic women ruled the house, but the quiet scholar was the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter. Mrs. March is as brisk and cheery. John Brooke did his duty manfully for a year, got wounded, was sent home, and not allowed to return. He received no stars or bars[2], but he deserved them. He was preparing for business, and earning a home for Meg. With the good sense and sturdy independence that characterized him, he accepted the place of bookkeeper.

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“But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Shall we continue bearing things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires?”

“I can’t argue about it. I only know that it’s the way of the world. People who set themselves against it only get laughed at for their pains.”

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