- "Are you going to help about the fair, dear?" asked Mrs. Carrol, as Amy sat down beside her with the confiding air elderly people like so well in the young.
- "Yes, Aunt. Mrs. Chester asked me if I would, and I offered to tend a table, as I have nothing but my time to give."
- "I'm not," put in Jo decidedly. "I hate to be patronized, and the Chesters think it a great favor to allow us to help with their highly connected fair. I wonder you consented, Amy, they only want you to work."
- "I am willing to work. It's for the freedmen as well as the Chesters, and I think it very kind of them to let me share the labor and the fun. Patronage does not trouble me when it is well meant."
- "Quite right and proper. I like your grateful spirit, my dear. It is a pleasure to help people who appreciate our efforts. Some do not, and that is trying," observed Aunt March, looking over her spectacles at Jo, who sat apart, rocking herself, with a somewhat morose expression.
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