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Amy explains why her memory of needing help shapes the kind of generosity she hopes to offer other ambitious girls.
“Yes, indeed; and there’s another class who can’t ask, and who suffer in silence. I know something of it, for I belonged to it before you made a princess of me, as the king does the beggar-maid in the...
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Narration Prompt
Write a short narration tracing how Amy and Laurie move from playful talk about married life to a serious promise about work, money, and helping others.
Discussion Questions
- Laurie says business will keep him steady, while Amy puts building a true home before fashionable society. What do their plans suggest marriage should change in them?
- Amy says she would have married Laurie poor, and Laurie remembers her refusing a richer man. Which gives him stronger reason to trust her, her words or her choices?
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Vocabulary
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Wholehearted commitment to a person or purpose
Item 2
Wasting time by moving or working too slowly
Item 3
More concerned with gaining money than with love or principle
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