I intend to work hard , '' said Amy in her most energetic tone . `` What delightful enthusiasm ! '' and he leaned against a tall urn with an air of entire satisfaction . `` What would Jo say if she saw you now ? '' asked Amy impatiently , hoping to stir him up by the mention of her still more energetic sister 's name . `` As usual , ` Go away , Teddy . I 'm busy ! ' '' He laughed as he spoke , but the laugh was not natural , and a shade passed over his face , for the utterance of the familiar name touched the wound that was not healed yet . Both tone and shadow struck Amy , for she had seen and heard them before , and now she looked up in time to catch a new expression on Laurie 's face -- a hard bitter look , full of pain , dissatisfaction , and regret . It was gone before she could study it and the listless expression back again . She watched him for a moment with artistic pleasure , thinking how like an Italian he looked , as he lay basking in the sun with uncovered head and eyes full of southern dreaminess , for he seemed to have forgotten her and fallen into a reverie . `` You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb , '' she said , carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone . `` Wish I was ! '' `` That 's a foolish wish , unless you have spoiled your life . You are so changed , I sometimes think -- '' there Amy stopped , with a half-timid , half-wistful look , more significant than her unfinished speech . Laurie saw and understood the affectionate anxiety which she hesitated to express , and looking straight into her eyes , said , just as he used to say it to her mother , `` It 's all right , ma'am . '' That satisfied her and set at rest the doubts that had begun to worry her lately . It also touched her , and she showed that it did , by the cordial tone in which she said ... `` I 'm glad of that ! I did n't think you 'd been a very bad boy , but I fancied you might have wasted money at that wicked Baden-Baden , lost your heart to some charming Frenchwoman with a husband , or got into some of the scrapes that young men seem to consider a necessary part of a foreign tour . Do n't stay out there in the sun , come and lie on the grass here and ` let us be friendly ' , as Jo used to say when we got in the sofa corner and told secrets . ''
Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf , and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of XXXXX 's hat , that lay there .
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