An Iconic Character | Little Women
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HAIRDRESSER: I'm sorry, mademoiselle, but we never pay lavishly. It's the work that renders a wig so costly. And yours would have to be dyed. It is a sadly unfashionable color.
JO: I need $25. My father is a Union Army chaplain. He is mortally sick in a hospital in Washington, and my mother can't even raise the money for a train ticket. Don't you have anyone fighting in the war?
HAIRDRESSER: A son.
JO: $25.
MARMEE: I hate to beg. I hate it.
AUNT MARCH: But you did.
MARMEE: Yes. And my husband may still die. But at least, if I go to him, he may not die alone.
AUNT MARCH: Well, what ails the fool? Dysentery? Typhus? Apoplexy?
MARMEE: The telegram didn't say.
AUNT MARCH: In which case it was indubitably written by a man. I venture to suggest that we had best send a woman there, so that we might, uh, ascertain the facts.
MARMEE: Thank you.
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(footsteps approaching)
JO: I was able to get you everything you wanted.
MARMEE: Oh, you splendid girl. Mr. Laurence is sending Mr. Brooke to Washington on business, and he can escort me on my journey, and is to make sure that Father and I have everything that we might need. Meanwhile, Aunt March is lending me the money for my fare.
JO: Oh. Because I got you this.
MARMEE: What is this?
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(gasping)
AMY: Your one beauty.
MARMEE: Oh, Jo.