Capitolo 19
too much as horns for the perfect grace; otherwise it emulates Raphael
Cherubs that sing psalms, and I am proud of it.'
Laurie was laughing as he spoke; for these first attempts it was this way
likes the first one of Amy, it was impossible to soberly concern them as as
the enthusiastic mother.
'You cannot see the beauty in anything but music', answered Bess, shaking
the gilded head that has done the bright one some one stain in the fresh north
lights of the great study.
'Well, I see the beauty in you, dear. And if You art is not, what is? ME
desires to put a little anymore a nature in you, and it gets away Him from this
cold clay and it marbles in the light of the sun, to dance and to laugh as the
others do. I want a girl of meat-and-blood, not a sweet statue in a
grey pinafore that forgets all but his/her job.' As he spoke, two
dusty hands came to round its neck, and it sincerely said Bess, while punctuating
his/her words with soft touches of his/her lips:
'Me not the forgetful never, dad; but I want to do anything beautiful
what you can be proud of me from and from. Mother tells me to often stay himself/herself/themselves;
but when we get in here us we forget there is out some world, we am
so busy and so happy. Now I will go and I will race and it will sing, and it is a girl to
please You.' And throwing away the apron, Bess faded away from the
lodgings, while seeming to take all the light with her.
'I am happy you said that. The dear child is too absorbed her
artistic dreams for a so young. It is my guilt; but I sympathize this way
deeply in him all, I forget to be wise', sighed Amy, attentively
covering his/her child with a wet towel.
'I think this power to live in our children it is one of the more dessert
things in the world; but I try to remember that al which said once Marmee
Meg--that fathers should have their action in the education of both
girls and boys; then I leave Ted to his/her father all self I am able, and Fritz
Rob lends me whose calm ways are as calm and good for me as
The storms of Ted are for his/her father. I now recommend him/it, Amy, to make Bess