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My sisters and I remembered that
winter as our childhood's coldest.
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A temporary poverty had hit
our family some years before.
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The war made fuel
and lamp oil scarce.
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The war made fuel
and lamp oil scarce.
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But necessity is
the mother of invention.
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Somehow in that dark time, the
March family created its own light.
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Marmee's home!
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We've expectorated you for hours!
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- "Expected", featherhead !
- Marmee, you're frozen.
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- So many people at Hope House!
- You finished the bundles?
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So many this year! We handed out . . .
How's your cold?
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We gave them out

as fast as we made them.

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Now, Miss Amy,
what's in my pocket?
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Father!
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"Dearest family.
I am well and safe."
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"Our battalion is encamped
on the Potomac."
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"December is cold for us,
so far from home."
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"I think of my girls day and night.
It comforts me."
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"I pray your own hardships may not
be too great. Give them my love."
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"Tell them I think of them by day,
pray for them by night."
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I'm a selfish girl.
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It's Christmas Eve.
Father wouldn't want us to be sad.
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To bed, Miss Amy. Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas.
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- Merry Christmas.
- I love you.
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- My Jo . . . Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas, Marmee.
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- Don't sit up too late.
- I won't.
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At night, my mind came alive 29
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- with voices and friends
as dear to me as my real ones.
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I gave myself up to it,
longing for transformation.
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What miraculous food ! Isn't this
just like the old days, Hannah?
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- We should just look at it!
- Jo, come down.
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I'm awake!
Horrible piano . . .
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- Hannah's made a Christmas miracle.
- Is that sausage?
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Wait!
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Butter! Isn't butter divinity?
God, thank you for this breakfast.
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Fetch Marmee. She went out at dawn
to see some Germans.

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"Hummel," the boy said.
No English. His dad's gone.
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Six children, and another coming.
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May as well take them firewood,
they haven't any. Or breakfast.
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We could send the Hummels
our bread.
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And the butter, too.
It's not much use without bread.
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- Wonderful snow!
- Wouldn't you like to roll in it?
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Once one of our finest families.
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- Lovely weather for a picnic.
- Come on, Theodore. We'll be late.
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Jo, let them speak first.
What Will they think of us?
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Don't look back!
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"Knights and ladies,
monks and flowergirls, 49
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- all mingled in the dance."
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"Pauline cried out

as the groom's mask fell."

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"It was not her lover Ferdinand,
but his sworn enemy Count Antonio."
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"Revenge is mine," quoth he.
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- "Continued in the next edition."
- Excellent, Mr. Snodgrass!
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- I love forbidden marriages!
- You ought to publish it, Jo.
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What's wrong with our newspaper,
Mr. Tupman?
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"One periwink . . . Advertisement."
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"One periwinkle sash has been
abscondated from the wash line."
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"A gentleman desires any reports
leading to its recovery."
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Gentlemen of the press:
Hear, hear!
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"I call your attention to
Mr. Tupman's History of the Squash."
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- This is a recipe, Beth !
- I never know what to write.
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The first rule of writing is,
never write what you know.

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What do you think of the boy?
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Is he a captive like Smee
in "Nicholas Nickleby"?
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He looks lonely.
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Maybe he has a secret.
A tragic, European secret.
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He was reared in Italy
among artists and vagrants.
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He has a noble brow. If I was a boy,
I'd like to look like that.
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Imagine giving up Italy to come
and live with that awful old man.
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I'd be terrified to live with him.
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I'd like to live in
such a fine house with nice things.
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It doesn't seem like Christmas
without presents.
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I'm desperate for drawing pencils.
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I wish I didn't have to work
for Great-Aunt March.
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What's your Christmas wish, Beth?

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I'd like the war to end,
so Father can come home.
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- Sweet Beth ! We all want that.
- They have a beautiful piano.
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When I'm a writer,
I'll buy you the best piano ever.
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Or else you can play on mine. When
I marry, I'll be disgustingly rich.
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What if the man you love
is poor but good, like Father?
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It's not like being stuck with a
dreadful nose. One can choose.
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I wouldn't marry for money.
What if his business goes bust?
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The Eagle pays five dollars a story.
I have ten in my head right now.
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Gentlemen !
I dislike all this money talk.
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If lack of attention to finance
is refinement, 86
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- then the Marches are
the most elegant family in Concord.
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We'll all grow up one day, Meg.
We might as well know what we want.

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That'll do.
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- Put the carriage away. Quickly!
- Merry Christmas.
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I have a wonderful feeling.
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Tell me all about Belle Gardiner.
About her nose and her ring.
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Annie says it's an emerald.
Everyone's lucky but me!
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I'm glad I don't have to go and be
with all those frightening people.
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Jo, don't eat much at supper, and
don't shake hands . . . Your dress!
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You stand too close to the fire.
Just keep your back to the wall.
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- What cunning little heels!
- They're rather small.
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It's only one night. Will anyone
notice they're from the rag bag?
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You have to have heels.
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What's that strange smell?
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Like burnt feathers . . .

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- Heavens above!
- You've ruined me!
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You shouldn't have had me do it.
I spoil everything.
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- I can't go out like this.
- Good. I'm not going either.
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We'll place my bow in front.
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Yes, that covers it.
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I'll never have suitors.
I'll be an old spinster.
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You don't need scores of suitors,
only one. The right one.
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- Listen to the child !
- Meg won't be married right away.
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With Jo's help, I never will.
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- You must be so happy!
- It's enchanting.
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I'd best go help Mama.
Excuse me.
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- Jehosephat! I'm sorry.
- Stay! It's a good hiding place.
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I feel awkward just

standing and staring at people.

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should I put on my jacket?
I don't know the rules.
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I'm Laurie.
Theodore Laurence . . . called Laurie.
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Jo March.
So, who were you staring at?
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- At you. What game was that?
- I don't know, but I think I won.
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Who else?
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I was quite taken with . . . that one.
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That's Meg.
That's my sister.
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She's completely bald in front.
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Is it true you lived in Italy
among artists and vagrants?
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My mother was Italian. A pianist.
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- Grandfather disapproved of her.
- I saw a play like that.
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Do you like the theatre?
Were you born there?
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- Where . .? In Italy.
- Do you speak French or Italian?
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English at home. Francais a l'ecole.
Music Conservatory, 128
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- but Grandfather got me a tutor.
He insists I go to college.
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I'd commit murder to go to college!
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Actually, I'm going to Europe.
At least, I hope I am.
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My great-aunt says she'll go soon.
I work as her companion.
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I have to read to her for hours.
But I do all the voices.
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Were I not going to be a writer, I'd
go to New York and pursue the stage.
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- Are you shocked?
- Very!
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Sorry! Meg makes me
take the gentleman's part.
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A shame you don't know
the lady's part!
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Are you looking
at the back of my dress?
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You promised you wouldn't look!

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- I've sprained my ankle.
- It's the shoes. Does it hurt?
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- No! I'm quite well.
- This is our neighbour Laurie.
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- I'll get Mrs. Gardiner.
- No, she'll think it's the punch.
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- A perfectly good party ruined.
- Let me take you home.
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Thank you !
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Here, lean on me.
Thank you, Mr. Laurence.
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- Bye, Laurie!
- Wherever did you get this shoe?
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Did you ride in his carriage? You're
so lucky. Is he very romantic?
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- Not in the slightest.
- He's a dreadful boy.
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He was wise to use snow.
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He put snow on her ankle?
With his own hands?
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- Stop being so swoony.
- You mustn't be silly about boys.
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- Does this hurt?
- Everything lovely happens to Meg.
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Don't be soppy about Laurie.
I hope we'll be good friends.
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- With a boy?
- He isn't a boy. He's Laurie.
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Faster!
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Faster!
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The young ladles are
unusually active, if I may say so.
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girls need exertion just like boys.
Feminine weakness is the result 158
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- of keeping them at home, bent over
needlework, in restrictive corsets.
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Marmee!
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Your young student is an athlete.
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He is, thank you. A good one.
But he's an unruly scholar.
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I regret that his grandfather
is away much.
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One hopes that your girls
Will be a gentling influence.

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Must you speak to everyone
about corsets?
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Do I?
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Blast these wretched skirts!
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- Don't say "blast".
- Amy, don't be such a ninny-pinny.
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I wish I was Beth,
so I could stay home.
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If you like laundry and housework!
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- Blast!
- Amy, hurry. I'll be late for work.
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There's Mrs. King.
I'm tardy again.
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- Lovely children !
- Meg, must I go to school?
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I'm so degradetated.
I owe at least a dozen limes.
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- Are limes the fashion?
- It's nothing but limes now.
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Everyone keeps them in their desks
and trades them for beads.
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If you don't bring limes, you're

nothing. I can't pay anyone back.

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No wonder you don't learn anything.
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I know how it feels to do without
luxuries. We're not destitute yet.
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Here's a quarter. Marmee
gave me the rag money this month.
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"Secondly,
the immortality of the soul 181
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- is asserted to be in consequence
of its immateriality, 182
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- as in all leipothymic cases 183
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- consistent with
the idea of immortality."
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"And immorality and physicality . . ."
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. . . and I think
you finally dozed off.
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Josephine!
There's a draught!
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Is it Father?
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Teacher struck me.
He put the limes out into the snow.
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May Chester said

my limes were for the homeless.
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So I said
she wouldn't get any from me.
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So she told Mr. Davis they were
in my desk, and he struck me.
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- I'll beat the tar out of him !
- Jo, we must not embrace violence.
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- I Will write him a letter.
- That'll show him.
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You didn't say they were forbidden.
A month's rag money!
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- I shouldn't have given it to you.
- I'm sorry. All those lovely limes.
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- I'm perfectly desolated.
- It's a frivolous concern.
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You're more concerned with your nose
than your character.
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It's an appalling school.
Your spelling's atrocious.
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Mr. Davis said it was as useful
to educate a woman as a cat.
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I'll strangle Mr. Davis!
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"Mr. Davis . . . What right have you

to strike a child?"
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"In God's eyes we are all children.
If you hit and humillate a child, 203
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- the only lesson she Will learn
is to hit and humillate."
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Can you discipline yourself to
learn at home, as Beth has done?
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- I withdraw Amy from your school.
- Serves him right!
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Jo Will now
supervise your education.
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Jo, Tell me what happens next.
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After the duke renounces his fortune
and saves Lady Zara . . .
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I don't know. It's all murder.
The damsel's in distress.
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I love your damsels in distress.
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Beth, truly, I don't know if
I could ever be good like Marmee.
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I rather crave violence.
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If only I could be like Father,
and go to war and fight injustice.
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- So Marmee does, in her own way.
- Yes . . .
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I want to do something different.
I don't know what, I'm on the watch.
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You'll find it, Jo.
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Jo! Come over here! You too, Meg !
It's dead as tombs around here.
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One doesn't shout at ladies
like cattle.
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My apologies!
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What do those girls do all day?
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Over the mysteries of female life
is drawn a veil 222
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- best left undisturbed.
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"Dear Countess, pray for me, 224
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- for I have sinned against myself
and my brother Roderigo."
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00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:53,595
You've got to say "sinned"
as if you've really sinned.
226
00:27:55,847 --> 00:28:01,186
Roderigo: You arrive,
seeking the Duke of Lancashire.
227

00:28:01,352 --> 00:28:05,857

Hark, ye! Who goes there?
I forgot the cymbals.
228
00:28:06,024 --> 00:28:09,527
It's Roderigo!
229
00:28:12,113 --> 00:28:17,952
I want to be Lady Violet.
I'm exhaustified of being the boy.
230
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,624
"The play's the thing," Amy.
You're too little to be Lady Violet.
231
00:28:22,791 --> 00:28:27,295
- Be the Countess de Montanescu.
- You've no lines.
232
00:28:27,462 --> 00:28:30,715
Besides, who'd be Roderigo?
233
00:28:31,966 --> 00:28:35,470
Gentlemen . . .
234
00:28:35,637 --> 00:28:40,558
I propose a new member for
our theatrical soclety:
235
00:28:40,725 --> 00:28:43,561
Theodore Laurence.
236
00:28:43,728 --> 00:28:47,732
- He'll laugh at us.
- He'll think it's only a game.
237
00:28:47,899 --> 00:28:53,738
- He won't. I promise.
- We'd have to guard our conduct.
238
00:28:53,905 --> 00:28:56,908
We bare our souls and Tell secrets.
239
00:28:57,075 --> 00:29:02,080
- He would find us improper.
- Teddy would certainly not!
240

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Please! Let's try him, shall we?
241
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,175
- Traitor!
- Artists! May I present myself . . .
242
00:29:14,342 --> 00:29:17,011
. . . as an actor, musician, 243
00:29:17,178 --> 00:29:21,766
- and a loyal and humble servant
of the club.
244
00:29:21,933 --> 00:29:27,188
In token of my gratitude
and to promote communication, 245
00:29:27,355 --> 00:29:33,444
- shouting from the windows
being forbidden, I shall provide 246
00:29:33,611 --> 00:29:36,447
- a post office in our hedge.
247
00:29:36,614 --> 00:29:41,119
To further encourage
the baring of our souls 248
00:29:41,286 --> 00:29:44,205
- and the Telling of our secrets.
249
00:29:47,709 --> 00:29:53,464
I do pledge never to reveal
what I hear in confidence here.
250
00:29:57,802 --> 00:30:01,055
well then . . .
251
00:30:01,889 --> 00:30:07,812
- Do take your place, Roderigo.
- Sir Roderigo.
252
00:30:15,653 --> 00:30:19,323
So Laurie was admitted
into our soclety.
253

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And we enjoyed the daily novelty
of having our own real brother.
254
00:30:29,333 --> 00:30:36,507
- I want to go to the theatre!
- No. Where are the opera glasses?
255
00:30:36,674 --> 00:30:41,846
You're just hogging Laurie.
Please, can't I go?
256
00:30:42,013 --> 00:30:45,933
Laurie only reserved four seats.
Do I look shabby?
257
00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:51,689
It's not a coronation, just Laurie
and that awful Mr. Brooke.
258
00:30:51,856 --> 00:30:56,110
- Ask him for another ticket.
- No.
259
00:30:56,277 --> 00:31:01,032
- You've a cold. Rest your eyes.
- We'll make ginger tea.
260
00:31:01,199 --> 00:31:07,705
You're weeks behind in algebra.
I won't have an ignorant sister.
261
00:31:07,872 --> 00:31:11,459
Don't sulk,
you look like a pigeon.
262
00:31:18,216 --> 00:31:20,802
You'll be sorry, Jo March !
263
00:31:34,065 --> 00:31:36,400
Thank you.
264
00:31:36,567 --> 00:31:40,738
Mrs. Neil Watson,
wasn't she a wonderful swooner?
265
00:31:40,905 --> 00:31:45,576
- If only I were the swooning type.

- And I the catching type!

266
00:31:46,410 --> 00:31:51,082
Young Laurence says you are
an aficionado of the theatre.
267
00:31:52,166 --> 00:31:55,336
I enjoy reading plays.
268
00:31:55,503 --> 00:31:59,423
Yes,
I find it most pleasurable myself.
269
00:31:59,590 --> 00:32:05,429
But I am distracted at the theatre,
thinking of actors' peculiar lives.
270
00:32:05,596 --> 00:32:12,019
With such immodestles, one wonders
what sort of lady wants such a life.
271
00:32:12,186 --> 00:32:17,525
Meg is a sensational actress.
We put on wild theatricals.
272
00:32:17,692 --> 00:32:20,778
It's just something that we play at.
273
00:32:22,780 --> 00:32:27,368
well, as a matter of fact,
at school . . .
274
00:32:27,535 --> 00:32:33,124
What do you think of that?
Let's see what they do!
275
00:32:41,549 --> 00:32:44,719
I had a wonderful time, Mr. Brooke.
276
00:32:44,885 --> 00:32:48,055
It was a most delightful evening.
277
00:32:48,222 --> 00:32:52,893
- Thank you very much. Goodnight!
- Goodnight!
278
00:32:57,982 --> 00:33:01,819

- That was rude.

- You plastered yourself on him.
279
00:33:01,986 --> 00:33:07,575
- It's proper to take a man's arm.
- How was the theatre?
280
00:33:07,742 --> 00:33:13,998
It was wonderful. I was absolutely
inspired by the love scene.
281
00:33:15,166 --> 00:33:19,170
You look flushed.
Was the theatre overcrowded?
282
00:33:23,674 --> 00:33:26,927
Still sulking?
283
00:33:36,854 --> 00:33:40,775
Where did I put my manuscript?
284
00:34:00,044 --> 00:34:03,214
I didn't do it!
285
00:34:03,380 --> 00:34:06,133
I'm going to kill you !
286
00:34:07,551 --> 00:34:10,638
Jehosephat!
287
00:34:10,805 --> 00:34:13,557
How could you do this to me?
288
00:34:13,724 --> 00:34:16,560
Jo, stop it!
You're hurting her.
289
00:34:16,727 --> 00:34:22,399
- Let her go. What's happened?
- I hate you !
290
00:34:25,569 --> 00:34:30,074
Don't touch it, just let it go.
291
00:34:31,492 --> 00:34:34,995
You're dead ! You're nothing !

292
00:34:35,162 --> 00:34:38,833
I never want to see you again !
293
00:34:48,092 --> 00:34:52,847
It's a great loss.
You have every right to be put out.
294
00:34:53,013 --> 00:34:57,935
But don't let the sun go down on
your anger. Forgive each other.
295
00:34:58,102 --> 00:35:04,441
- Begin again tomorrow.
- I'll never forgive her.
296
00:35:06,861 --> 00:35:09,697
I'm sorry, Jo.
297
00:35:32,511 --> 00:35:34,888
Looks like the last ice this year.
298
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,228
- Say "go".
- Wait for me.
299
00:35:41,395 --> 00:35:45,983
Ignore her.
Ready . . . Blast!
300
00:36:15,554 --> 00:36:17,681
Amy!
301
00:36:17,890 --> 00:36:20,768
Hold on !
302
00:36:24,271 --> 00:36:27,358
Hold on, Amy!
303
00:36:28,317 --> 00:36:30,402
Get a rail !
304
00:36:34,573 --> 00:36:37,534
Grab it, Amy!
305
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,293
Hold on !

306
00:36:51,965 --> 00:36:55,928
There we go.
That's it, that's it.
307
00:36:57,638 --> 00:37:02,810
Josephine March, you walked from
Walden Pond in just bloomers?
308
00:37:02,976 --> 00:37:08,190
- As if she noticed ! Dear Amy.
- How could I be so horrible?
309
00:37:08,315 --> 00:37:13,070
- Thank God for Laurie.
- Do you love him more than me?
310
00:37:13,237 --> 00:37:19,910
Don't be a beetle! I could never
love anyone as I love my sisters.
311
00:37:20,953 --> 00:37:26,166
You left out the part where Lady
Zara succumbs to the duke's rival.
312
00:37:26,333 --> 00:37:29,753
Right! Sir Hugo . . .
313
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,507
I quite prefer him myself.
314
00:37:38,971 --> 00:37:46,019
ln the spring, we prepared for Meg
to go to Sally Moffat's coming-out.
315
00:37:46,186 --> 00:37:50,357
Myself, l'd sooner be hung
than attend a fancy ball.
316
00:37:50,524 --> 00:37:53,569
Wait until all Boston sees you !
317
00:37:53,777 --> 00:37:58,365
I told Laurie to keep you from being
a wallflower upon penalty of death.
318
00:37:58,532 --> 00:38:01,368

Where is that miserable glove?

319
00:38:01,535 --> 00:38:06,206
Abigail, I shake my head
at how you're managing Margaret.
320
00:38:06,373 --> 00:38:10,711
How is she to be married
without a proper d?ut?
321
00:38:10,878 --> 00:38:15,173
Things Will not change
with your husband's return.
322
00:38:15,382 --> 00:38:20,304
My nephew is as foolish with money
as with his new philosophies.
323
00:38:20,470 --> 00:38:25,601
The one hope for your family
is for Margaret to marry well.
324
00:38:25,726 --> 00:38:30,564
Though I don't know
who marries governesses.
325
00:38:30,731 --> 00:38:35,903
And this one is entirely ruined
with books. Are those for me?
326
00:38:36,069 --> 00:38:41,325
They're for Meg to take with her.
Marmee, she's lost a glove!
327
00:38:41,533 --> 00:38:44,828
She can't go without gloves.
They're soclety.
328
00:38:44,995 --> 00:38:48,498
You're right. She may borrow mine.
329
00:38:49,750 --> 00:38:54,504
- Meg ! You can take Marmee's!
- Oh, dear . . .
330
00:38:57,090 --> 00:39:00,552
- More tea?
- No thank you !

331
00:39:14,775 --> 00:39:19,446
Sally Moffat, you won't be able
to draw your laces.
332
00:39:19,571 --> 00:39:22,532
At my coming-out,
I didn't eat for weeks.
333
00:39:28,538 --> 00:39:33,794
- I do like that colour on you.
- It's just like forget-me-nots.
334
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,214
I haven't seen such fabric
for years.
335
00:39:37,381 --> 00:39:43,970
- But you had it made up so plain.
- well, I do my own sewing, and . . .
336
00:39:44,137 --> 00:39:49,142
Mrs. Finster has silk pieces
ready-made. I'll take you there.
337
00:39:49,309 --> 00:39:54,523
The Marches don't buy silk.
They have views on slavery.
338
00:39:54,648 --> 00:39:59,736
Didn't your father's school close
when he admitted a dark girl?
339
00:39:59,903 --> 00:40:04,408
Mrs Finster's silk isn't from
the South. It's from Linfield.
340
00:40:04,574 --> 00:40:09,996
- This isn't China silk?
- The silk mills use child labour.
341
00:40:11,498 --> 00:40:18,255
"The poor are always with us."
You're so good to remind us.
342
00:40:21,675 --> 00:40:24,469
May I Tell you something?

343
00:40:24,594 --> 00:40:29,516
This is an afternoon dress.
I'll make you my pet.
344
00:40:30,267 --> 00:40:33,520
Hortense, viens ici.
345
00:40:35,438 --> 00:40:40,193
Tonight, Miss March
shall have many conquests.
346
00:40:40,402 --> 00:40:43,947
You have no corset!
347
00:41:09,556 --> 00:41:13,393
The next dance is the polka.
With me.
348
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:18,231
I would dance with you,
but I fear for my new slippers.
349
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,861
My credo is: Don't tread on me!
350
00:41:22,986 --> 00:41:28,575
Miss March . . . I thought your family
were temperance people?
351
00:41:33,747 --> 00:41:38,668
Don't cover up. Maybe someone
hasn't seen all your charms.
352
00:41:38,793 --> 00:41:42,088
And I promised Jo I'd show you off.
353
00:41:42,255 --> 00:41:49,346
- The girls dressed me. I like it.
- It reveals a whole new Meg.
354
00:41:49,471 --> 00:41:52,766
What do you call this?
355
00:42:07,989 --> 00:42:10,450
Meg . . .
356

00:42:11,701 --> 00:42:14,871

I'm sorry.
357
00:42:15,038 --> 00:42:20,210
Please don't Tell Jo
how I've behaved.
358
00:42:20,377 --> 00:42:23,296
If you won't Tell about me.
359
00:42:23,463 --> 00:42:28,718
I just wanted to see how it felt
to be Belle Gardiner.
360
00:42:28,885 --> 00:42:34,391
- Ail those proposals and gloves.
- You're worth ten of those girls.
361
00:42:34,557 --> 00:42:41,231
Have you seen the way the March girl
went after the Laurence heir?
362
00:42:47,237 --> 00:42:51,908
This ridiculous dress!
I keep tripping over it.
363
00:42:52,033 --> 00:42:57,997
tle some of it around your neck,
where it can do some good.
364
00:42:58,164 --> 00:43:04,421
I don't like people speculating
about Laurie and Meg.
365
00:43:04,587 --> 00:43:09,926
Nothing provokes speculation
like a woman enjoying herself.
366
00:43:10,093 --> 00:43:16,099
- Why may Laurie flirt and drink?
- And no one thinks less of him?
367
00:43:16,266 --> 00:43:20,186
For one practical reason:
Laurie is a man.
368
00:43:20,353 --> 00:43:25,942
So he may vote, hold property

and pursue any profession.

369
00:43:26,109 --> 00:43:29,696
And so he is not so easily demeaned.
370
00:43:29,821 --> 00:43:35,285
- Who cares what people think?
- I do.
371
00:43:35,452 --> 00:43:41,374
It's nice to be praised and admired.
I couldn't help but like it.
372
00:43:41,541 --> 00:43:44,461
I only care
what you think of yourself.
373
00:43:44,669 --> 00:43:50,466
If you feel your value lies
in being decorative, I fear 374
00:43:50,675 --> 00:43:56,139
- one day you may think that's all
you are. Time erodes beauty, 375
00:43:56,306 --> 00:44:00,727
- but not
the wonderful workings of your mind.
376
00:44:00,852 --> 00:44:05,899
Your humour, your kindness . . .
and your moral courage.
377
00:44:06,065 --> 00:44:09,903
These are the things
I cherish in you.
378
00:44:10,069 --> 00:44:16,576
I wish it was a just world. I know
you'll make it a better place.
379
00:44:52,278 --> 00:44:56,699
No, I don't want them.
Keep the music too.
380
00:44:56,908 --> 00:45:02,538
You need your books in college.
Here's Dombey and Son.

381
00:45:02,705 --> 00:45:07,335
Honestly, I won't need
all of Dickens at Harvard.
382
00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:12,131
No, you'll have
more important things to read.
383
00:45:13,633 --> 00:45:16,970
Nothing's going to change, Jo.
384
00:45:17,136 --> 00:45:22,183
- I wish I could go.
- I wish you could, too.
385
00:45:23,226 --> 00:45:28,481
You'll come back knowing things
I don't know, and I'll hate you !
386
00:45:31,067 --> 00:45:37,240
As it happens, I already know
something you don't know.
387
00:45:37,407 --> 00:45:42,495
About Meg
and a certain former tutor, 388
00:45:42,662 --> 00:45:46,666
- soon to be employed
at Laurence and Laurence.
389
00:45:46,833 --> 00:45:53,673
Has Meg mislaid a certain personal
article, such as . . .
390
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,009
. . . a glove?
391
00:45:59,512 --> 00:46:05,184
- John Brooke stole your glove!
- What glove? The white one?
392
00:46:05,351 --> 00:46:09,856
He's had it forever.
He keeps it in his pocket!
393

00:46:10,022 --> 00:46:15,528

- Don't you think he must return it?
- What I think doesn't matter.
394
00:46:19,282 --> 00:46:24,036
A telegram from Washington Hospital.
395
00:46:24,203 --> 00:46:28,291
Your father's been wounded.
396
00:46:35,798 --> 00:46:39,969
- You'll have enough for the month.
- Don't worry.
397
00:46:40,136 --> 00:46:44,140
- Look in on the Hummels for me.
- I will.
398
00:46:44,307 --> 00:46:46,976
Where's Jo?
399
00:46:47,143 --> 00:46:50,980
Battling Aunt March
for Marmee's ticket.
400
00:46:52,315 --> 00:46:58,237
- John . . . Mr. Brooke.
- I Will escort your mother.
401
00:46:58,404 --> 00:47:04,660
Cook packed supper, and there's
a bottle of spirits for Mr. March.
402
00:47:04,827 --> 00:47:07,580
Mr. Brooke is here.
403
00:47:07,747 --> 00:47:14,587
I'm no longer a tutor. Mr. Laurence
has work for me in Washington.
404
00:47:14,754 --> 00:47:19,342
- We couldn't let you travel alone.
- How kind of you !
405
00:47:19,508 --> 00:47:23,763
- We'll take the six o'clock train?
- Yes, I sent Jo . . .

406
00:47:23,930 --> 00:47:28,434
Finally . . . 25!
Can Aunt March spare it?
407
00:47:29,352 --> 00:47:32,188
I couldn't bear to ask her . . .
408
00:47:32,355 --> 00:47:37,693
- I sold my hair.
- Jo, your one beauty!
409
00:47:37,860 --> 00:47:42,782
- It'll grow back.
- It suits you.
410
00:47:42,949 --> 00:47:45,868
Tell Father that we love him.
411
00:47:46,035 --> 00:47:50,957
Tell him we pray for him.
412
00:47:57,296 --> 00:48:00,967
I shall miss my little women !
413
00:48:22,738 --> 00:48:25,908
Are you thinking about Father?
414
00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:30,830
No, my hair . . .
415
00:48:52,268 --> 00:48:54,353
Wait for me!
416
00:48:56,522 --> 00:49:01,694
- Blast! This stove . . .
- We'll eat them anyway.
417
00:49:01,861 --> 00:49:06,365
There's no corn meal or coffee.
We can't get credit.
418
00:49:06,532 --> 00:49:11,036
- What can I bring the Hummels?
- Oh, fry the Hummels!
419
00:49:11,203 --> 00:49:15,958

- The boys are sick.

- I mustn't Tell Marmee.
420
00:49:16,125 --> 00:49:18,961
I hate money!
421
00:49:21,547 --> 00:49:24,133
Your potatoes!
422
00:49:58,751 --> 00:50:03,839
I don't understand.
I brought a . . .
423
00:50:38,540 --> 00:50:41,627
- Laurie's home!
- He must need funds.
424
00:50:41,794 --> 00:50:46,382
We'd get a week's food
from his billiard money.
425
00:50:55,307 --> 00:51:01,313
Meg, I sold "The Lost Duke of
GIoucester"! Five whole dollars!
426
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:07,569
- I'm an author . . . Beth?
- The Hummel baby is sick.
427
00:51:10,823 --> 00:51:14,743
I feel so strange.
428
00:51:17,496 --> 00:51:22,501
She's hot, but she feels cold.
She's thirsty, but won't drink.
429
00:51:22,668 --> 00:51:27,840
- Arsenic? Belladonna?
- I saw the Hummels.
430
00:51:28,007 --> 00:51:35,097
Two children are dead from scarlet
fever. You and Miss Jo have had it.
431
00:51:35,264 --> 00:51:40,269
But, Miss Amy . . .
We must send you away.

432
00:51:47,109 --> 00:51:51,447
She won't die, Will she, Laurie?
433
00:51:51,613 --> 00:51:53,949
God won't let her die.
434
00:51:55,701 --> 00:51:58,954
I don't want to go away.
435
00:51:59,121 --> 00:52:04,793
I'll come every day, I swear.
You won't be alone.
436
00:52:10,049 --> 00:52:13,302
I'm afraid of Aunt March.
437
00:52:14,887 --> 00:52:20,225
If she's unkind to you,
I'll take come and take you away.
438
00:52:20,392 --> 00:52:25,314
- Where Will we go?
- Paris?
439
00:52:29,067 --> 00:52:34,823
If I die of scarlet fever, give Meg
my box with the green doves on it.
440
00:52:34,990 --> 00:52:39,661
- Jo can have my turquoise ring.
- I'll see to it.
441
00:52:39,828 --> 00:52:46,335
I don't want to die.
I've never even been kissed.
442
00:52:46,502 --> 00:52:51,507
I've waited my whole life
to be kissed. What if I miss it?
443
00:52:51,673 --> 00:52:54,510
I'll Tell you what . . .
444
00:52:54,676 --> 00:53:00,015
I promise to kiss you
before you die.

445
00:53:20,702 --> 00:53:22,955
Marmee mustn't leave Father.
446
00:53:23,121 --> 00:53:27,960
- Beth needs her.
- What if Father gets worse?
447
00:53:28,126 --> 00:53:33,131
And how would we pay for the train?
448
00:53:33,298 --> 00:53:36,885
"That he profane not
my sancteraries . . ."
449
00:53:37,052 --> 00:53:40,556
- Sanctuaries.
- Sanctuaries.
450
00:53:40,722 --> 00:53:44,726
"For I the Lord do sanctify them."
451
00:53:44,893 --> 00:53:52,568
"And Moses told it unto Aaron,
and to all the children of Israel."
452
00:53:55,570 --> 00:53:57,656
Go on.
453
00:54:00,826 --> 00:54:03,495
"And the Lord said to Moses . . ."
454
00:54:08,667 --> 00:54:11,503
Jo, Mr. Laurence is here.
455
00:54:16,591 --> 00:54:24,182
If we may, my personal physician
Will examine the little girl.
456
00:54:38,613 --> 00:54:44,619
There's nothing to be done.
If I bleed her, it Will finish her.
457
00:54:44,786 --> 00:54:47,789
Best to send for the mother.
458
00:54:47,956 --> 00:54:53,628

I've already done so.

Mrs. March arrives tonight.
459
00:55:03,055 --> 00:55:05,974
Jo!
460
00:55:08,977 --> 00:55:12,814
Cricket, Marmee's here.
461
00:55:17,652 --> 00:55:19,905
Icy cold !
462
00:55:20,072 --> 00:55:26,745
Jo, fetch a basin of vinegar, water,
and some rags. Meg, my kit.
463
00:55:26,912 --> 00:55:29,748
We'll draw the fever down
from her head.
464
00:56:10,288 --> 00:56:13,458
Beth . . .
465
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:48,493
And so our Beth came back to us,
although fever weakened her heart.
466
00:56:48,660 --> 00:56:52,497
We did not know
that a shadow had fallen.
467
00:56:52,664 --> 00:56:55,750
We prepared for another Christmas
without Father.
468
00:56:56,585 --> 00:57:01,339
- Try each corner.
- No! One bow's enough.
469
00:57:07,262 --> 00:57:12,100
- I'm so sorry!
- It happens all the time.
470
00:57:13,184 --> 00:57:18,106
- Here she comes.
- What shall I do with the bows?
471

00:57:31,119 --> 00:57:35,206

The house is beautiful.
472
00:57:47,135 --> 00:57:51,723
Friends of mine from college.
Freddy Vaughan, Averill Watson.
473
00:57:51,890 --> 00:57:55,060
They won't bite.
474
00:58:00,315 --> 00:58:04,152
- No, don't sit there, sit . . .
- Here!
475
00:58:04,319 --> 00:58:08,823
- Sit here, child. Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas!
476
00:58:16,748 --> 00:58:21,169
I should have given it to you
long ago.
477
00:58:21,336 --> 00:58:27,926
It belonged to my little girl.
She left us when she was very young.
478
00:58:28,093 --> 00:58:32,430
But now it Will make music again.
479
00:58:41,773 --> 00:58:45,360
Thank you, Mr. Laurence.
480
00:58:45,527 --> 00:58:49,197
Merry Christmas.
481
00:58:49,364 --> 00:58:54,119
- Play something, Beth.
- shall I?
482
00:59:49,173 --> 00:59:51,426
That was good.
483
00:59:51,593 --> 00:59:55,179
I fear you'll have
a long engagement.
484
00:59:55,346 --> 01:00:00,268

John must get a house first

and do his service.
485
01:00:00,435 --> 01:00:05,440
John? Marry?
That pokey old Mr. Brooke?
486
01:00:05,607 --> 01:00:08,943
How did he sneak into this family?
487
01:00:09,110 --> 01:00:15,950
- He visits Father every day.
- He's dull. Find someone amusing !
488
01:00:16,117 --> 01:00:21,873
He is good, kind and serious.
I'm not afraid of being poor.
489
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,210
You can't just let her go
and marry him.
490
01:00:26,377 --> 01:00:31,716
Better to be a poor man's wife
than to lose one's self-respect.
491
01:00:33,301 --> 01:00:39,057
- You don't mind that he's poor?
- No. But I'd rather he had a house.
492
01:00:39,223 --> 01:00:43,644
Why marry?
Why can't things stay as they are?
493
01:00:43,811 --> 01:00:47,565
It's a proposal,
nothing need be decided.
494
01:00:48,649 --> 01:00:51,652
Let's not spoil the day.
495
01:01:01,412 --> 01:01:07,668
- Father . .? Father!
- What a wonderful present!
496
01:01:16,177 --> 01:01:20,014
Beth . . . Thank God you're well.

497
01:01:20,181 --> 01:01:22,517
Give him room !
498
01:01:22,683 --> 01:01:26,270
My wild girl !
499
01:01:26,437 --> 01:01:31,025
This could become the fashion.
500
01:01:31,192 --> 01:01:36,781
- Be very careful.
- Don't coddle me too much.
501
01:01:38,282 --> 01:01:44,789
- Hannah . . . It's good to see you.
- It's good to have you home.
502
01:01:44,956 --> 01:01:49,210
Let me look at my girls.
503
01:02:00,888 --> 01:02:03,641
Cholera took more men than the rebs.
504
01:02:03,808 --> 01:02:09,230
Agriculture isn't taught,
and it should be.
505
01:02:09,397 --> 01:02:14,485
- What happened with you and John?
- Never you mind.
506
01:02:15,485 --> 01:02:25,485
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