Sometimes the Dashwood girls do notseem like sisters.Elinor is all calmnessand reason,and can be relied upon forpractical,common sense opinions.Marianne,on the other hand,is allsensibility,full of passionate and romantic feeling.Shehas no time for dull common sense-or for middle-agedmen of thirty-five,long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young,of course.And ifyour heart is broken at the age of seventeen,how can youever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fillsyour life,waking and sleeping?
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London in the 1830s was no place to be ifyou were a hungry ten-year-old boy,anorphan without friends or family,with nohome to go to,and only a penny in yourpocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends-Fagin,the Artful Dodger,and Charley Bates.They give him food and shelter,and play games with him,but it is not until some days laterthat Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and whatkind of 'games' they play…
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan,to help on the farm at Green Gables.They ask for a boy, but they get Anne,who has red hair and freckles,and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl,but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel?So Anne stays,and begins a new life in the sleepy,quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there ... (Word count 5,860)
Christmas is humbug,Scrooge says-just a time when you find yourself a yearolder and not a penny richer.The onlything that matters to Scrooge is business,and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him.They take him travelling on the wings of the night to seethe shadows of Christmas past,present,and future-and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
