Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions - Louisa May Alcott

...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart

I beg leave to assure my honored readers that most of the incidents are taken from real life, and that the oddest are the truest; for no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.