[Eight Cousins by Louisa M. Alcott]@TWC D-Link bookEight Cousins CHAPTER 16--Bread and Button-Holes 3/9
She is not elegant, but genuinely good, and so beloved and respected that there will be universal mourning for her when her place is empty.
No one can fill it, for the solid, homely virtues of the dear soul have gone out of fashion, as I say, and nothing new can be half so satisfactory, to me at least." "I should like to have people feel so about me.
Can she teach me to do what she does, and to grow as good ?" asked Rose, with a little prick of remorse for even thinking that Aunt Plenty was a commonplace old lady. "Yes, if you don't despise such simple lessons as she can give.
I know it would fill her dear old heart with pride and pleasure to feel that anyone cared to learn of her, for she fancies her day gone by.
Let her teach you how to be what she has been a skilful, frugal, cheerful housewife; the maker and the keeper of a happy home, and by and by you will see what a valuable lesson it is." "I will, uncle.
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