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¡¡¡¡Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise of her sister, and stored it up to repeat to Meg. ¡¡¡¡Both peeped and criticized and chatted, till they felt like old acquaintances. Laurie's bashfulness soon wore off; for Jo's gentlemanly demeanour amused and set him at his ease, and Jo was her merry self again, because her dress was forgotten, and nobody lifted their eyebrows at her. ¡¡¡¡She liked the `Laurence boy' better than ever, and took several good looks at him, so that she might describe him to the girls; for they had no brothers, very few male cousins, and boys
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were almost unknown creatures to them. ¡¡¡¡`Curly black hair; brown skin; big, black eyes; handsome nose; fine teeth; small hands and feet; taller than I am, very polite for a boy, and altogether jolly. Wonder how old he is?' ¡¡¡¡It was on the tip of Jo's tongue to ask; but she checked herself in time, and with unusual tact, tried to find out in a roundabout way. ¡¡¡¡`I suppose you are going to college soon? I see you pegging away at your books - no, I mean studying hard'; and Jo blushed at the dreadful `pegging' which had escaped her. ¡¡¡¡Laurie smiled, but didn't seem shocked, and answered, with a shrug: ¡¡¡¡`Not for a year or two; I won't go before seventeen, anyway.' ¡¡¡¡`Aren't you but fifteen?' asked Jo, looking at the tall lad, whom she had imagined seventeen already. ¡¡¡¡`Sixteen, next month.'
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