Little Women: Amy's Monologue 2

AMY—I hate having to wear my cousin’s clothes. Having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that do not fit. My school dress is a dull purple with yellow dots and no trimming. My only comfort is that Mother doesn’t take tucks in my dresses whenever I’m naughty, as Maria Parks’s mother does. My dear, it’s really dreadful, for sometimes she is so bad her frock is up to her knees, and she can’t come to school. When I think of this deggerredation, I feel that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown with yellow sky-rockets on it.