`` Oui , mademoiselle . '' `` It 's my sister Margaret , and you knew it was ! Do you think she is pretty ? '' `` Yes , she makes me think of the German girls , she looks so fresh and quiet , and dances like a lady . '' Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise of her sister , and stored it up to repeat to Meg . Both peeped and criticized and chatted till they felt like old acquaintances . Laurie 's bashfulness soon wore off , for Jo 's gentlemanly demeanor amused and set him at his ease , and Jo was her merry self again , because her dress was forgotten and nobody lifted their eyebrows at her . She liked the ` Laurence boy ' better than ever and took several good looks at him , so that she might describe him to the girls , for they had no brothers , very few male cousins , and boys were almost unknown creatures to them . `` Curly black hair , brown skin , big black eyes , handsome nose , fine teeth , small hands and feet , taller than I am , very polite , for a boy , and altogether jolly . Wonder how old he is ? '' It was on the tip of Jo 's tongue to ask , but she checked herself in time and , with unusual tact , tried to find out in a round-about way . `` I suppose you are going to college soon ? I see you pegging away at your books , no , I mean studying hard . '' And Jo blushed at the dreadful ` pegging ' which had escaped her . Laurie smiled but did n't seem shocked , and answered with a shrug . `` Not for a year or two . I wo n't go before seventeen , anyway . '' `` Are n't you but fifteen ? '' asked Jo , looking at the tall lad , whom she had imagined seventeen already . `` Sixteen , next month . ''
`` How I wish I was going to XXXXX !
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