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Tonight, we'll read the fourth chapter of little women by American author Louisa May Alcott,

published in 1868 titled, Burdens,

following the lives of the four March sisters, Meg, Joe, Beth, and Amy.

The novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her

sisters. In the previous chapter, Meg and Joe attend a party and Joe gets acquainted with the Lawrence boy, aka Glory. Let's get cozy.

get cozy.

close your eyes.

relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. Chapter 4, Burdens.

Oh dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on.

Side Meg, the morning after the party.

For now the holidays were over.

The week of Mary making did not fit her for going on easily with the task she never liked.

I wish it was Christmas or New Year's all the time. Wouldn't it be fun?

answered Joe, yawning, dismally.

We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now,

but it does seem so nice to have little suppers and bouquets and go to parties and drive home and read and rest and not work.

It's like other people, you know,

and I always envy girls who do such things.

I'm so fond of luxury, said Meg, trying to decide which of two shabby gowns was the least shabby.

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