1 I don't intend to run away from a girl.
2 It was Laurie's father, who had run away in his youth, and married against the imperious old man's will.
3 Let us say nothing about it to him till the plan is settled, then I'll run away before he can collect his wits and be tragic.
4 If I was a boy, we'd run away together, and have a capital time, but as I'm a miserable girl, I must be proper and stop at home.
5 Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that, and to be bidden to "run away, dear" is still more trying to us.
6 For a minute a wild desire to run away possessed her, but that was cowardly, and the girls would laugh at her, so she resolved to stay and get out of the scrape as she could.
7 Mr. Laurence looked so alarming and spoke so sharply that Jo would have gladly run away, if she could, but she was perched aloft on the steps, and he stood at the foot, a lion in the path, so she had to stay and brave it out.
8 A call at Meg's, and a refreshing sniff and sip at the Daisy and Demijohn, still further fortified her for the tete-a-tete, but when she saw a stalwart figure looming in the distance, she had a strong desire to turn about and run away.