Capitolo 1
A Modern Cinderella
or You Small Old Shoe
And the Other Histories
of LOUISA May ALCOTT
CONTAINED
A MODERN CINDERELLA: OR, THE SMALL OLD SHOE
THE DEBUT OF DEBBY
BROTHERS
THE HOSPITAL OF NELLY
A MODERN CINDERELLA
OR,
THE SMALL OLD SHOE
AS IT WAS LOST
Among New and green hills of England been standing a
ancient house, very-gabled, mossy-covered with a roof, and
characteristically he/she built, but picturesque and pleasant to the
eye; for a brook babblings crossed the orchard
that included him around, a garden-interweaves lengthened
directed upward to the whips that whisper on the slant, and
patriarchal elms sustained sentinel on the lawn, as
they had been one century ago almost standing, when the
Revoiution rolled so and it found them young.
A morning in summer, when the air was full of
country plays, of mowers in the lawn, black-
birds from the brook and the least one of kine on the
hill-side, the old house brought its happier aspect,
and a certain humble history started.
"Nan!"
"Yes, Of."
And a head, brown-dams, from the blue eyes, soft-
features give, it looked in to the open door in answer
to the call.
Only the third volume brings me of 'Wilhelm
Meister', there is a darling. It is not worth really while
to rouse such ghost without rest as me, when I am
it fairly placed once."
As she spoke, Of Pulled on his/her black braids,
it beat the pillow of the couch where she was
lying, and with anxious eyes the last went down
page of his/her book.
"Nan!"
"Yes, Laura", the girl answered, while returning
with the third volume for the sea crow of literay,
who the takings with a sign, still too much the content on
the "Confessions of an Equitable Saint" to remember
the weakness of a some simple sinner.
"You don't forget the Italian cream for supper. ME
depends on him; for him the only adaptation of thing is for me
this warm time."
It is Laura the fresh blonde prepared the folds,
of his/her white suit more gracefully around her, and
touched on the eyebrow of the Minerva that she was
drawing.
"Small daughter!"
"Yes, father."
"Allow me to have many clean collars in mine