`` Now let us go home , and never mind Aunt March today . We can run down there any time , and it 's really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers , when we are tired and cross . '' `` Speak for yourself , if you please . Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style , and making a formal call . It 's a little thing to do , but it gives her pleasure , and I do n't believe it will hurt your things half so much as letting dirty dogs and clumping boys spoil them . Stoop down , and let me take the crumbs off of your bonnet . '' `` What a good girl you are , Amy ! '' said Jo , with a repentant glance from her own damaged costume to that of her sister , which was fresh and spotless still . `` I wish it was as easy for me to do little things to please people as it is for you . I think of them , but it takes too much time to do them , so I wait for a chance to confer a great favor , and let the small ones slip , but they tell best in the end , I fancy . '' Amy smiled and was mollified at once , saying with a maternal air , `` Women should learn to be agreeable , particularly poor ones , for they have no other way of repaying the kindnesses they receive . If you 'd remember that , and practice it , you 'd be better liked than I am , because there is more of you . '' `` I 'm a crotchety old thing , and always shall be , but I 'm willing to own that you are right , only it 's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I do n't feel like it . It 's a great misfortune to have such strong likes and dislikes , is n't it ? '' `` It 's a greater not to be able to hide them . I do n't mind saying that I do n't approve of Tudor any more than you do , but I 'm not called upon to tell him so . Neither are you , and there is no use in making yourself disagreeable because he is . '' `` But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men , and how can they do it except by their manners ? Preaching does not do any good , as I know to my sorrow , since I 've had Teddie to manage . But there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word , and I say we ought to do it to others if we can . ''
`` Teddy is a remarkable boy , and ca n't be taken as a sample of other boys , '' said XXXXX , in a tone of solemn conviction , which would have convulsed the ` remarkable boy ' if he had heard it .
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