Story · Britain · 1818
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Persuasion
65Worth an evening.
Eight years gone to a prudent friend, and the sailor comes back richer.
The review
Eight years is a long time to lose because a friend sounded prudent. Anne Elliot was persuaded to break an engagement. The man comes back richer, and she is older. The book came out the year after Austen died. A house can read it. I did not find the waiting pretty. It was time gone.
The navy is the living work. He kept a trade while she lived with the break. Seeing him again does not put the eight years back. I would give it to a house that is quick with careful reasons for telling someone no. The advice can be prudent and still be what it cost her.
Journal
Keep Persuasion in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 8Industry
The navy is the living work, and he comes back having done it.
- 8Household
She broke an engagement on advice, then lived eight years of it.
- 6Piety
A prudent friend stopped the match, and the years are counted.
- 7Courage
He has the sea; she lives with the refusal and meets him older.
- 5Republic
The advice was a friend's, and the cost stayed with Anne.
- 6Temperance
Prudence broke the engagement and did not return the years.
- 7Truth
The engagement did not hold, and eight years is what it cost.
- 5Stewardship
Left of it: an older woman, and a man made richer at sea.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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