Excerpt from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Chapter 14 Secrets. Joe was very busy in the garret, for the October days, began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short for two or three hours. The sun lame warmly in the high window, showing Joe seated on the old sofa, writing busily with her paper spread out upon a trunk before her while scrabble the Patriot promenade, the beams overhead, accompanied by his oldest son, a fine young fellow who was evidently very proud of his whiskers. Quite absorbed in her work, Joe scribbled away till the last page was field when she signed her name with a flourish and threw down her pen. Lying back on the sofa, she read the manuscript carefully, making dashes here and there and putting in many exclamation points, which looked like little balloons. Then she tied it up with a smart red ribbon and sat up in it, looking at it with a sober, wistful expression, which plainly showed how earnest her work had been. Joe's desk up here was an old tin kitchen, which hung against the wall. In it. She kept her papers and a few books safely shut away from Scrabble, who, being likewise of a literary turn, was fond of making a circulating library of such books as were left in his way by eating the leaves from this tin receptacle. Joe produced another manuscript and, putting both in her pocket, crept quietly downstairs, leaving her friends to nibble on her pens and taste her rink.