Laurie wishes he could help the professor by . little women

inventing a deceased relative with an inheritance to pass along

Explanation:

In chapter 44 of Little Women

Amy looked up at him, and was satisfied. Her little jealous fear

vanished forever, and she thanked him, with a face full of love and

confidence.

"I wish we could do something for that capital old Professor.

Couldn't we invent a rich relation, who shall obligingly die out there

in Germany, and leave him a tidy little fortune?" said Laurie, when

they began to pace up and down the long drawing room, arm in

arm, as they were fond of doing, in memory of the chateau garden.

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