I should rather enjoy the brickbats and hooting , I think . '' `` Well , compose yourself now , and do n't worry Aunt with your new ideas . '' `` I 'll try not to , but I 'm always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her . It 's my doom , and I ca n't help it . '' They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady , both absorbed in some very interesting subject , but they dropped it as the girls came in , with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces . Jo was not in a good humor , and the perverse fit returned , but Amy , who had virtuously done her duty , kept her temper and pleased everybody , was in a most angelic frame of mind . This amiable spirit was felt at once , and both aunts ` my deared ' her affectionately , looking what they afterward said emphatically , `` That child improves every day . '' `` Are you going to help about the fair , dear ? '' asked Mrs. Carrol , as Amy sat down beside her with the confiding air elderly people like so well in the young . `` Yes , Aunt . Mrs. Chester asked me if I would , and I offered to tend a table , as I have nothing but my time to give . '' `` I 'm not , '' put in Jo decidedly . `` I hate to be patronized , and the Chesters think it 's a great favor to allow us to help with their highly connected fair . I wonder you consented , Amy , they only want you to work . '' `` I am willing to work . It 's for the freedmen as well as the Chesters , and I think it very kind of them to let me share the labor and the fun . Patronage does not trouble me when it is well meant . '' `` Quite right and proper . I like your grateful spirit , my dear . It 's a pleasure to help people who appreciate our efforts .
Some do not , and that is trying , '' observed Aunt March , looking over her spectacles at XXXXX , who sat apart , rocking herself , with a somewhat morose expression .
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