a girl’s duty

“Then they all streamed after him along the garden-path, with the endless messages and warnings girls are so prone to give; and the young man, with a great softness at his heart, went away, as many another John has gone, feeling better for the companionship of innocent maidenhood, and stronger to wrestle with temptation, to wait and hope and work.”

-A Modern Cinderella, by Louisa May Alcott, pg. 30
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Gretchen
A random redhead who loves the Lord, her farmer husband, their curly-haired little ones, reading, writing, pictures, and chocolate.
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