`` I wish it was as easy for me to do little things to please people as it is for you . I think of them , but it takes too much time to do them , so I wait for a chance to confer a great favor , and let the small ones slip , but they tell best in the end , I fancy . '' Amy smiled and was mollified at once , saying with a maternal air , `` Women should learn to be agreeable , particularly poor ones , for they have no other way of repaying the kindnesses they receive . If you 'd remember that , and practice it , you 'd be better liked than I am , because there is more of you . '' `` I 'm a crotchety old thing , and always shall be , but I 'm willing to own that you are right , only it 's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I do n't feel like it . It 's a great misfortune to have such strong likes and dislikes , is n't it ? '' `` It 's a greater not to be able to hide them . I do n't mind saying that I do n't approve of Tudor any more than you do , but I 'm not called upon to tell him so . Neither are you , and there is no use in making yourself disagreeable because he is . '' `` But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men , and how can they do it except by their manners ? Preaching does not do any good , as I know to my sorrow , since I 've had Teddie to manage . But there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word , and I say we ought to do it to others if we can . '' `` Teddy is a remarkable boy , and ca n't be taken as a sample of other boys , '' said Amy , in a tone of solemn conviction , which would have convulsed the ` remarkable boy ' if he had heard it . `` If we were belles , or women of wealth and position , we might do something , perhaps , but for us to frown at one set of young gentlemen because we do n't approve of them , and smile upon another set because we do , would n't have a particle of effect , and we should only be considered odd and puritanical . '' `` So we are to countenance things and people which we detest , merely because we are not belles and millionaires , are we ? That 's a nice sort of morality . '' `` I ca n't argue about it , I only know that it 's the way of the world , and people who set themselves against it only get laughed at for their pains . I do n't like reformers , and I hope you never try to be one . '' `` I do like them , and I shall be one if I can , for in spite of the laughing the world would never get on without them . We ca n't agree about that , for you belong to the old set , and I to the new .
You will XXXXX on the best , but I shall have the liveliest time of it .
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