ROSE IN BLOOM.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

66

A SEQUEL TO

EIGHT COUSINS."

AUTHOR OF

BY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT,

LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN,
66 'HOSPITAL SKETCHES," "AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG," "WORK,"

66 EIGHT COUSINS," ETC.

BODI.

London:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,

CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.

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PREFACE.

As authors may be supposed to know better than any one else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl and the Sequel was simply written in fulfilment of a promise; hoping to afford some amusement, and perhaps here and there a helpful hint, to other roses getting ready to bloom.

September, 1876.

L. M. ALCOTT.