Excerpts from a book I read lately

A little while ago my sister loaned me a book by Louisa May Alcott called An Old-Fashioned Girl. She was always raving about how good it was and I was like,okay, this had better be good!

I wasn't disappointed.

I decided to share some of the things that popped out at me as I read it.

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"Do you really think I look nice?" and Polly's face brightened, for she valued the old lady's opinion very much.
"Yes, my dear; you look just as i like to see a child of your age look. What particularly pleases me is that you have kept your promise to your mother, and haven't let anyone persuade you to wear borrowed finery. Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear tonight-youth, health, intelligence, and modesty."
-page 125

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 "Well, whatever you do, Will, don't have a great, costly church that takes so much money to build and support it that you have nothing to give away. I like the plain, old-fashioned churches, built for use, not show, where people met for hearty praying and preaching, and where everybody made their own music instead of listening to opera singers, as we do now. I don't care if the old churches were bare and cold, and the seats hard, there was real piety in them, and the sincerity of it was felt in the lives of the people. I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes round again; I want something to see and feel and live by day by day, and I hope you'll be one of the true ministers, who can teach by precept and example, how to get and keep it."
-page 196

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"How can you bear the dreadful sights and sounds, the bad air, and the poverty that can't be cured?"asked Fan.
"But it isn't all dreadful. There are good and lovely things among them, if one only has eyes to see then. It makes me grateful and contented, shows me how rich I am, and keeps me ready to do all I can for those poor souls." replied Polly, passionately.
-page 255

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"Yes," Polly said hopefully," I know you will succeed, for the best thing a man  can have, is work with a purpose it it, and the will to do it  heartily."
"There is one better thing, Polly," answered Tom, turning her face up a little, that he might see his inspiration shining in her eyes.
"What is it,dear?"
"A good woman to love and help him all his life, as you will me, please God."
-page 370
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Can I suggest you read it too?

If you can find it, that is.