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.