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" How ?" asked Mr. Power, interested in these little revelations. "Well, he won't be ambitious. I try to stir him up, for he has talents ; I 've found that out : but he won't seem to care for any thing but watching over his mother, reading his old books,... "
Beginning again, a continuation of Work - Page 36
by Louisa May Alcott - 1875
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Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott

Elizabeth Lennox Keyser - 1993 - 252 pages
...nature and reclaim her own. Christie initiates this discussion by lamenting to Mr. Power that David "won't seem to care for any thing but watching over...flowers bloom double when they ought to be single" (252). When David joins them, Christie continues to express her dissatisfaction but does so indirectly...
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Work: A Story of Experience

Louisa May Alcott - 1994 - 386 pages
...try to stir him up, for he has talents; I've found that out: but he won't seem to care for anything but watching over his mother, reading his old books,...flowers bloom double when they ought to be single." In the Strawberry Bed 195 many a man who would be far better employed in cherishing a sweet old woman,...
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography

Martha Saxton - 1995 - 462 pages
...ambitious: "I try to stir him up for he has talents; I've found out: but he won't seem to care for anything but watching over his mother, reading his old books,...flowers bloom double when they ought to be single." Power tells her not to expect heroes, that "if people don't come up to the mark you are so disappointed...
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Work

2010 - 390 pages
...these little revelations. "Well, he won't be ambitious. I try to stir him up, for he has talents; I've found that out: but he won't seem to care for any thing but 40 watching over his mother, reading his old books, and making flowers bloom double when they ought...
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