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Pride and Prejudice

70Worth an evening.

A marriage is the plot, and a bad marriage has a bill.

The review

Elizabeth Bennet will not marry a man she cannot respect, even when the money would save her family. That is the part to keep. Fitzwilliam Darcy will not stay the man who insulted her. That is the other part.

The book is funny about fools, and it is not funny about Lydia. A girl who runs off with a man of no character does not get a sparkling ending. She gets a small, embarrassed life. Read it for the correction, not for the dresses.

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The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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A Christmas Carol

85 instead of 70

A Christmas Carol is still a story film, and it scores 85 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The ghosts will not let him call his life a private matter.

The eight

6
Industry
The work of an estate is in the background. The story is not about a craft.
9
Household
Marriage is the whole question, and Wickham's charm is not allowed to be free.
5
Piety
The clergyman is a joke. Conscience in Elizabeth and Darcy is not.
7
Courage
She refuses money. He swallows his pride in writing and in person.
7
Republic
Rank is real, and a neighborhood still has an opinion that matters.
7
Temperance
Wickham's appetite is the part that costs the youngest sister.
8
Truth
The first judgment is wrong. The letter corrects it. She changes her mind.
7
Stewardship
An entailed house and five daughters. The future of the women is the stake.

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The Secret Garden

73Worth an evening.

Neglect is the illness. Work in a garden, and a father who returns, are the cure.

The review

Mary Lennox arrives rude and useless. Colin Craven has been allowed to believe he cannot live. The garden has been locked since his mother died. None of that is fixed by a speech. It is fixed by going outside, by seeds, and by a father who finally walks into the room.

Read it when a house has gone stale. The instruction is practical. Open a door. Give someone a living thing to take care of.

Journal

Keep The Secret Garden in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

A Christmas Carol

85 instead of 73

A Christmas Carol is still a story film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: The ghosts will not let him call his life a private matter.

The eight

7
Industry
The garden is work. Martha and Dickon already know how to do it.
8
Household
A shut-up house opens. A father comes back to his son.
6
Piety
The 'magic' is attention and growth. Awe is real. A creed is not spelled out.
7
Courage
Mary goes outside. Colin stands up. Both were used to refusing.
6
Republic
A manor and a cottage. The children cross the line the adults keep.
8
Temperance
Spoiling is the sickness. Appetite stops being the ruler.
7
Truth
The locked garden and the hidden boy are secrets that have to be opened.
9
Stewardship
A dead mother's garden is kept, then given to the children who will tend it.

Where to read

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