Homo Sum
Produced by David Widger HOMO SUM, Complete By Georg Ebers Volume 1. Translated by Clara Bell PREFACE. In the course of my labors preparatory to writing a history of the Sinaitic peninsula, the study of the first centuries of Christianity for
and I won't have any sentimental stuff about compliments and such
rubbish. We'll all be good to him because he hasn't got any mother,
and he may come over and see us, mayn't he, Marmee?"
"Yes, Jo, your little friend is very welcome, and I hope Meg
will remember that children should be children as long as they can."
"I don't call myself a child, and I'm not in my teens yet,"
observed Amy. "What do you say, Beth?"
"I was thinking about our '_Pilgrim's Progress_'," answered Beth,
who had not heard a word. "How we got out of the Slough and through
the Wicket Gate by resolving to be good, and up the steep hill by
trying, and that maybe the house over there, full of splendid things,
is going to be our Palace Beautiful."
"We have got to get by the lions first," said Jo, as if she
rather liked the prospect.
CHAPTER SIX
BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL
The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took
some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass
Produced by David Widger HOMO SUM, Complete By Georg Ebers Volume 1. Translated by Clara Bell PREFACE. In the course of my labors preparatory to writing a history of the Sinaitic peninsula, the study of the first centuries of Christianity for