Sentence:  Back and forth Duclos had to go , between M. de Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke d'Aumont and Jean Jacques again , as his <WSD>little</WSD> operetta , The Village Soothsayer , though still unperformed , took on ever more importance . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent