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ROSE IN BLOOM.

A SEQUEL TO

"EIGHT COUSINS"

BY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN,"
"HOSPITAL SKETCHES," "AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG," "WORK,"
"EIGHT COUSINS," ETC.


WITH ILLUSTRATION.





BOSTON:

ROBERTS BROTHERS.

1876.

Copyright, 1876,
By Louisa M. Alcott.

Cambridge:
Press of John Wilson & Son.

PREFACE.

As authors may be supposed to know betterthan any one else what they intended to do whenwriting a book, I beg leave to say that there isno moral to this story. Rose is not designed fora model girl: and the Sequel was simply writtenin fulfilment of a promise; hoping to afford someamusement, and perhaps here and there a helpfulhint, to other roses getting ready to bloom.

L. M. Alcott.

September, 1876.

CONTENTS.