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Little Women

‘What will we buy?’ asked Jo, ignoring the latter part of
his speech, and sniffing the mingled odors with an
affectation of delight as they went in.
‘May they haf oranges and figs?’ asked Mr. Bhaer, with

a paternal air.
‘They eat them when they can get them.’ ‘Do you care
for nuts?’
‘Like a squirrel.’
‘Hamburg grapes. Yes, we shall drink to the Fatherland
in those?’
Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked
why he didn’t buy a frail of dated, a cask of raisins, and a
bag of almonds, and be done with it? Whereat Mr. Bhaer
confiscated her purse, produced his own, and finished the
marketing by buying several pounds of grapes, a pot of
rosy daisies, and a pretty jar of honey, to be regarded in
the light of a demijohn. Then distorting his pockets with
knobby bundles, and giving her the flowers to hold, he
put up the old umbrella, and they traveled on again.
‘Miss Marsch, I haf a great favor to ask of you,’ began
the Professor, after a moist promenade of half a block.
‘Yes, sir.’ And Jo’s heart began to beat so hard she was
afraid he would hear it.

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