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Tonight, I will be continuing the story, Little Women.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 6. Beth finds the palace beautiful.

The big house did prove a palace beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in,

and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old Mr. Lawrence was the biggest one, but after he had

called, said something funny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over old times with their

mother, nobody felt much afraid of him, except timid Beth. The other lion was the fact that they were

poor and Laurie Rich, for this made

them shy of accepting favours which they could not return. But after a while they found that

he considered them the benefactors. I could not do enough to show how grateful he was for Mrs. March's

motherly welcome, their cheerful society, and the comfort he took in that

humble home of theirs. So they soon forgot their pride, and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to

think which was the greater. All sorts of pleasant things happened about that time, for the new

friendship flourished to like grass and spring. Everyone liked Laurie, and he privately informed his tutor that the marches were regularly

splendid girls.

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