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Chapter 1 Ten Years Later
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'If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place herein ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg,as they sat on the piazza1 at Plumfield one summer day, looking aboutthem with faces full of pride and pleasure.
'This is the sort of magic that money and kind hearts can work. I amsure Mr Laurence could have no nobler monument than the college he sogenerously endowed; and a home like this will keep Aunt March'smemory green as long as it lasts,' answered Mrs Meg, always glad topraise the absent.
'We used to believe in fairies, you remember, and plan what we'd askfor if we could have three wishes. Doesn't it seem as if mine hadbeen really granted at last? Money, fame, and plenty of the work Ilove,' said Mrs Jo, carelessly rumpling3 up her hair as she claspedher hands over her head just as she used to do when a girl.
'I have had mine, and Amy is enjoying hers to her heart's content.
If dear Marmee, John, and Beth were here, it would be quite perfect,'
added Meg, with a tender quiver in her voice; for Marmee's place wasempty now.
Jo put her hand on her sister's, and both sat silent for a littlewhile, surveying the pleasant scene before them with mingled4 sad andhappy thoughts.
It certainly did look as if magic had been at work, for quietPlumfield was transformed into a busy little world. The house seemedmore hospitable5 than ever, refreshed now with new paint, added wings,well-kept lawn and garden, and a prosperous air it had not worn whenriotous boys swarmed6 everywhere and it was rather difficult for theBhaers to make both ends meet. On the hill, where kites used to beflown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent7 legacyhad built. Busy students were going to and fro along the paths oncetrodden by childish feet, and many young men and women were enjoyingall the advantages that wealth, wisdom, and
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