During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone
("Little Women")
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O lesson well and wisely taught
Stay with me to the last,
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For the trial that is past.
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