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“will you come, please?” cried laurie.
“I’m not quiet and nice; but I’ll come, if mother will let me. I’ll go ask her. shut that window, like a good boy, and wait till I come.”

“i’m the oldest,” began meg, but jo cut in with a decided— “i’m the man of the family now papa is away, and shall provide the slippers, for he told me to take special care of mother while he was gone.”