11/6/2022 0 Comments Laurie little womenIt seemed a small loss to others, but to Jo it was a dreadful calamity, and she felt that it never could be made up to her. She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old notes, so that Amy’s bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years. It was only half a dozen little chapters of tactical fighting schemes she’d invented and hoped to implement one day, but Jo had worked over them patiently, recording every detail and thought she’d ever had. Jo’s notebook was the pride of her heart, and she was regarded by her family as a vampire defender of great promise. The storm cleared up below, for Mrs March came home, and, having heard the story, soon brought Amy to a sense of the wrong she had done her sister. Meg flew to rescue Amy, who did not need air to breathe so was no worse off for being deprived of it, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself, and with a parting box on her sister’s ear, which ejected an upper right molar, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the garret and finished her argument alone, beating up several dozen training figures. “You wicked, wicked girl! I never can write it again, and I’ll never forgive you as long as I live.” “Yes, I did! I told you I’d make you pay for being so cross yesterday, and I have, so…”Īmy got no further, for Jo’s hot temper mastered her, and she shook Amy by the neck till her teeth chattered in her head, crying in a passion of grief and anger… “What! My little book in which for years I’ve been keeping detailed notes about all my slayer-hunting activities? Have you really burned it?” said Jo, her eyes kindling as her hands clutched Amy’s throat.
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