Page 402 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

LITTLE WOMEN good, for since you came I have been altogether lazy and luxu- rious." "I'm not tired, but you may take an oar, if you like. There's room enough, though I have to sit nearly in the middle, else the boat won't trim," returned Laurie, as if he rather liked the arrange- ment. Feeling that she had not mended matters much, Amy took the offered third of a seat, shook her hair over her face, and accept- ed an oar. She rowed as well as she did many other things, and though she used both hands, and Laurie but one, the oars kept time, and the boat went smoothly through the water. "How well we pull together, don't we?" said Amy, who objected to silence just then. "So well that I wish we might always pull in the same boat. Will you, Amy?" very tenderly. "Yes, Laurie," very low. Then they both stopped rowing, and unconsciously added a pretty little tableau of human love and happiness to the dissolv- ing views reflected in the lake. 400