1 Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating.
2 Amy heard the clash of skates, and looked out with an impatient exclamation.
3 Laurie did not see, for he was carefully skating along the shore, sounding the ice, for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap.
4 Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skating was one of the joys of her life.
5 Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skating was one of the joys of her life.
6 Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.
7 Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.
8 Jo heard Amy panting after her run, stamping her feet and blowing on her fingers as she tried to put her skates on, but Jo never turned and went slowly zigzagging down the river, taking a bitter, unhappy sort of satisfaction in her sister's troubles.