" Oh, oh, oh! What have you done? I'm spoiled! I can't go! My hair, oh, my hair! " wailed Meg, looking with despair at the uneven frizzle on her forehead.
" It's not the fashion, but it's becoming, and I can't afford to make a fright of myself, " she used to say, when advised to frizzle, puff, or braid, as the latest style commanded.
The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head, and half invisible itself, forms the accidentally frizzled hair into a nebulous haze of light, surrounding her crown like an aureola.
" It isn't spoiled. Just frizzle it, and tie your ribbon so the ends come on your forehead a bit, and it will look like the last fashion. I've seen many girls do it so, " said Amy consolingly.
So, as I happened to be passing near his house one day, I just went there about some trifling payment to be made; and I saw such a miserable black frizzle of a dinner —a greasy cinder of meat, as first set me a-thinking.