`` Teddy is a remarkable boy , and ca n't be taken as a sample of other boys , '' said Amy , in a tone of solemn conviction , which would have convulsed the ` remarkable boy ' if he had heard it . `` If we were belles , or women of wealth and position , we might do something , perhaps , but for us to frown at one set of young gentlemen because we do n't approve of them , and smile upon another set because we do , would n't have a particle of effect , and we should only be considered odd and puritanical . '' `` So we are to countenance things and people which we detest , merely because we are not belles and millionaires , are we ? That 's a nice sort of morality . '' `` I ca n't argue about it , I only know that it 's the way of the world , and people who set themselves against it only get laughed at for their pains . I do n't like reformers , and I hope you never try to be one . '' `` I do like them , and I shall be one if I can , for in spite of the laughing the world would never get on without them . We ca n't agree about that , for you belong to the old set , and I to the new . You will get on the best , but I shall have the liveliest time of it . 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 . ''
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