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`I shall say I didn\'t know you; for you look so grown-up, and unlike yourself, I\'m quite afraid of you,\' he said, fumbling at his glove-button.
`How absurd of you! The girls dressed me up for fun, and I rather like it. Wouldn\'t Jo stare if she saw me?\' said Meg, bent on making him say whether he thought her improved or not.
`Yes, I think she would,\' returned Laurie, gravely.
`Don\'t you like me so?\' asked Meg.
`No, I don\'t,\' was the blunt reply.
`Why not?\' in an anxious tone.
He glanced at her frizzled head, bare shoulders, and fantastically trimmed dress, with an expression that abashed her more than his answer, which had not a particle of his usual politeness about it.
`I don\'t like fuss and feathers.\'
That was altogether too much from a lad younger than herself, and Meg walked away, saying petulantly: `You are the rudest boy I ever saw.\'
Feeling very much ruffled, she went and stood at a quiet window to cool her cheeks, for the tight dress gave her an uncomfortably brilliant colour. As she stood there, Major Lincoln passed by, and, a minute after, she heard him saying to his mother: `They are making a fool of that little girl; I wanted you to see her, but they have spoilt her entirely; she\'s nothing but a doll tonight.\'
`Oh dear!\' sighed Meg; `I wish I\'d been sensible, and worn my own things; then I should not have disgusted other people or felt so uncomfortable and ashamed of myself.\'
She leaned her forehead on the cool pane, and stood half hidden by the curtains, never minding that her favourite song had begun, till someone touched her; and, turning, she saw Laurie, looking penitent, as he said, with his very best bow, and his hand out:
`Please forgive my rudeness, and come and have an ice with me.\'
`I\'m afraid it will be too disagreeable to you,\' said Meg, trying to look offended, and failing entirely.
`Not a bit of it. Come, I\'ll be good; I don\'t like your gown, but I do think you are - just splendid\'; and he waved his hands, as if words failed to express his admiration.
Meg smiled and relented, and whispered, as they stood waiting: `Take care my skirt don\'t trip you up; it\'s the plague of my life, and I was a goose to wear it.\'
`Pin it round your neck, and then it will be useful\', said Laurie, looking down at the little blue boots, which he evidently approved of.
`Laurie, I want you to do me a favour; will you?\' said Meg.
`Won\'t I!\' said Laurie, with alacrity.
`Please don\'t tell them at home about my dress tonight. They won\'t understand the joke, and it will worry Mother.\'
`Then why did you do it?\' said Laurie\'s eyes, so plainly that Meg hastily added: `I shall tell them myself all about it and "\'fess" to Mother how silly I\'ve been. But I\'d rather do it myself; so you\'ll not tell, will you?\'
`I give you my word I won\'t; only what shall I say when they ask me?\'
`Just say I looked pretty well, and was having a good time.\'
`I\'ll say the first with all my heart; but how about the other? You don\'t look as if you were having a good time; are you?\' and Laurie looked at her with an expression which made her answer, in a whisper: `No, not just now. Don\'t think I\'m horrid; I only wanted a little fun, but this sort doesn\'t pay, I find, and I\'m getting tired of it.\'
`Here comes Ned Moffat; what does he want?\' said Laurie, knitting his black brows as if he did not regard his young host in the light of a pleasant addition to the party.
`What a bore!\' said Meg, assuming a languid air, which amused Laurie immensely.
He did not speak to her again till supper-time, when he saw her drinking champagne with Ned and his friend Fisher, who were behaving `like a pair of fools\', as Laurie said to himself, for he felt a brotherly sort of right to watch over the Marches, and fight their battles whenever a defender was needed.
`You\'ll have a splitting headache tomorrow, if you drink that stuff. I wouldn\'t, Meg; your mother doesn\'t like it, you know,\' he whispered, leaning over her chair, as Ned turned to refill her glass, and Fisher stooped to pick up her fan.

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